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 Lena Dunham Apologizes, Admits She Lied To Discredit Alleged Rape Victim
Lena Dunham has apologized to the actress Aurora Perrineau, whose account of being raped by the writer Murray Miller Dunham disputed in a public statement in November 2017. At the time, Dunham wrote that “insider knowledge” of the situation made her certain that Perrineau “misreported” the assault. In the apology letter, published in the Hollywood…
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Forward 50 2018 Meghan Markle
The Royal Addition — Our Forward 50 Gets A Plus 1! Say it with us: Meghan Markle — not a Jew. But oh, oh, in our hearts she is! Markle, the 37-year-old American television actress and activist became Duchess of Sussex in May when she wed the Duke, aka Prince Harry, the Queen’s grandson. In…
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The Schmooze Kanye West Apologizes For Texting During The Cher Show
Do you believe in theater etiquette after portable cellphone technology? I feel something inside me sayin’, I really don’t think we’re strong enough. Join us in some profound second-night of Hanukkah silliness: music mogul Kanye West and mogul-mogul Kim Kardashian attended “The Cher Show,” a new Broadway production focused on the life of singer Cher,…
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Forward 50 2018 Ady Barkan
Giving His Last Breath To Democracy You’re dying, but Ady Barkan, 34, is dying faster. Maybe there are abnormal cells in your skin; maybe there’s plaque in your interior arteries; maybe you’ll be hit by a car. Ady Barkan’s death is less of a mystery. His motor neurons are dying, melting his muscles and gradually…
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Film & TV ‘Mrs. Maisel Is Just As Good — And Just As Annoying — The Second Time Around
Oy vey! We had to wipe a little shmutz off our tchotchkes, but you better bissel–gornisht–treyf believe it — the second season of Amazon Prime’s smash-hit show “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” is just as bagel as ever. Jews! If you enjoy the tempo of crack-cocaine addicts, or podcasts played at 2x speed, you will enjoy the…
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The Schmooze In ‘Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,’ The Forward Gets A Cameo
We are — as Miriam Maisel might say — totally plotsing. The highly anticipated second season of Amazon Prime’s runaway hit “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” will stream all ten episodes starting Wednesday. The Forward got a glimpse at the first five, and we’re happy to toot our own shofars and say that we get a…
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Forward 50 2018 Tiffany Haddish
She Ready! It’s Tiffany Haddish’s world, and we’re just living in it, lucky to laugh along. While the 38-year-old comedian has been ready for years — popping up in guest appearances on comedy shows like “That’s So Raven,” “New Girl” and “Chelsea Lately” — it’s only this year that her fame has caught up with…
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The Schmooze Michelle Obama Disses Sheryl Sandberg: ‘That Lean In S**t Doesn’t Work.’
In 244 glossy pages, Sheryl Sandberg put forth this thesis in her 2013 best-seller “Lean In”: Women can overcome external and internal impediments to their own accomplishments by becoming empowered and confident. In fifteen words, Michelle Obama responded, definitively: “It’s not always enough to lean in, because that s**t doesn’t work all the time.” Well,…
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