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 Seth Rogen To Star In Movie Based Off New Yorker Short Story About Pickle Incident
For this writer’s money, it’s no longer safe to assume that any woman would ever be interested in watching a man do anything again. But in case you’re willing to make an exception, nice-Jewish-boy Seth Rogen plans to star in a movie about a Jewish immigrant who falls into a vat of pickles and stays…
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The Schmooze Idina Menzel And Ariana Grande Will Do ‘Wicked’ The Musical TV Event
It’s like a dream — and you were there! And you were there! Kristin Chenoweth was there! Idina Menzel was there! And Ariana Grande, and the Pentatonix, and Ben Platt’s dad, and the guy who got engaged at the Emmy’s were all there! “Wicked,” the record-smashing, elegant, blockbuster Broadway musical, will take to the diminutive…
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The Schmooze Barbra Streisand Gives Lady Gaga’s ‘A Star Is Born’ Performance Her Blessing
Like a dog-cloning, multi-millionaire doula, Barbra Streisand has blessed the Bradley Cooper remake of her 1976 movie, “A Star Is Born.” Streisand, as aspiring rockstar Esther Hoffman, saw “A Star Is Born” through its third iteration — the musical extravaganza began in 1937 as a movie starring Janet Gaynor. It was remade in 1954 as…
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The Schmooze Barbra Streisand ‘Went Ballistic’ On Donald Trump In Her New Song
How can an American citizen use her god-given gifts to make a difference when her country’s leader devotes himself to spreading misinformation? If you’re a lawyer, you can offer pro-bono services to those in need. If you’re a teacher, you can augment your curriculum to focus on evidence-based fact-finding. And if you’re Barbra Streisand, you…
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The Schmooze Jewish Activist-Model Hari Nef Rocks Sequins And Talks Witches With Seth Meyers
Dripping in scarlet sequins and swishing loose blonde curls, breakthrough Jewish star Hari Nef took her rightful place on the late night stage. The model, actress, and intellectual appeared on “Late Night With Seth Meyers” on Wednesday night to promote her gruesome dark comedy “Assassination Nation.” In her five minutes with Meyers, she managed to…
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The Schmooze 12 Uplifting RBG Quotes To Get You Through Today
It’s a hard day for women. It’s a hard day for anyone who has ever been made to feel small, or unheard, or powerless. We turn now to the words of Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States Ruth Bader Ginsburg, or The Notorious RBG. On the necessity of social justice movements:…
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The Schmooze Mel Gibson Slithers Back To Power Under The Cover Of #MeToo
America is embroiled in one of our favorite national disputes: Can people make amends for evil acts? Can a person who has done some good things also be a person who has done some bad things? If a man is wealthy, handsome, and affable-seeming, should we put him in a position of power regardless of…
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The Schmooze ‘The Crimes Of Grindelwald’ Trailer Scrubs Female Characters From ‘Harry Potter’ World
A five-part “Harry Potter” movie spinoff based on a fictional textbook that JK Rowling wrote for charity in 2001 is something nobody asked for. The five-movie series that began with “Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them” in 2016 released a trailer for its follow-up, “Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald,” out November 16, on…
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