Jenny Singer is a freelance writer and a former Forward staff writer. She writes a weekly Substack about living with anxiety, called “Uneasy Going.”
Jenny Singer
By Jenny Singer
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The Schmooze ‘Baby It’s Cold Outside’ Originally Featured A Woman Seducing A Man, Too
When Frank Loesser, the Jewish composer of musicals like “Guys and Dolls” wrote “Baby It’s Cold Outside” in 1944 for himself and his wife to perform at dinner parties, he labeled the two vocal parts “mouse” and “wolf.” “Baby It’s Cold Outside,” has become a Russian doll of controversy that we take down from the…
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The Schmooze Holocaust Survivor Reunites With Family That Hid Her — With Help From Facebook Message
Charlotte Adelman’s life has been one long saga of miracles and tragedies. The 86-year-old was only nine years old when the Nazis invaded Paris, where she lived with her parents and brother. Two years into the Nazi occupation of France, Charlotte’s mother Rajzla took Charlotte and her brother to an orphanage, hoping to save them;…
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The Schmooze ‘Santa Knows Hebrew?’ Meet The Jews Who Play Santa
Don’t believe in the season of miracles? Meet Santa Claus: a lawyer who went to the Yeshiva of Flatbush. Before he was Santa, his side gig was teaching in Boro Park. He speaks Hebrew. “It takes a lot to be a Santa. It takes a lot to be a good santa,” Dana Friedman says. Revisit…
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The Schmooze Hey, Lotsa Jews Could Host The Oscars — And They Aren’t Homophobic Like Kevin Hart
Kevin Hart has stepped down as this year’s Oscar Host, fewer than 24 hours after the announcement that he’d been given the gig. In the thrillingly stupid time that lapsed between the announcement and the denouement, savvy Googlers discovered enthusiastically homophobic comments Hart made in tweets and while performing standup early in his career. Hart…
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The Schmooze Jessica Simpson Schools Natalie Portman On Virginity Politics
Natalie Portman is the Gloria Steinem to Jessica Simpson’s Kathy Acker, and there is nothing any of us can do about this. In a media interaction that strongly supports that theory that we are living in a video game simulation, pop-star Jessica Simpson schooled Natalie Portman in a discourse on feminist philosophy in the public…
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The Schmooze Donald Trump Jr. Blasts Lena Dunham For ‘Lying to Protect A Rapist’
Donald Trump, Jr.: A tireless defender of assault victims, and a crusader for believing all women, and all victims. Wait — what? On Wednesday, First Son Donald Trump, Jr. made an uncharacteristic move — retweeting a post by Chuck Ross slamming Lena Dunham for “ly[ing] to protect a rapist.” Dunham admitted on Wednesday that she…
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The Schmooze ‘You Hurt Us’: Aurora Perrineau’s Mother Publicly Forgives Lena Dunham
At the Hollywood Reporter’s Women in Entertainment event on Wednesday, Lena Dunham invited Brittany Perrineau to the stage. Last year Dunham said that Perrineau’s daughter, Aurora, had “misreported” when she told police that she was raped in 2012 by a writer for Dunham’s TV show “Girls.” Aurora Perrineau told Los Angeles police last year that…
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The Schmooze Rachel Bloom Unveils Vagina Menorah — Just In Time For Hanukkah
Marc Chagall. Max Weber. Lucian Freud. Rachel Bloom is not the first Jewish artist to create work that shocks and provokes powerful men, and she will not be the last! Her art, perhaps, surpasses all the others in terms of pun-usage. The creator and star of CW’s musical comedy “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” took to Twitter to…
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