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 Maroon 5 Will Be The Most Jewish Superbowl Halftime Show Ever
Alright Jews, huddle. Now listen up: I’m only gonna say this once. We’re fixing to have the single most Jewish Superbowl halftime show ever. Ever. Our boy Adam Levine and his band Maroon 5 were tapped to perform at Superbowl LIII, and that’s big. It means we have to rally. We have to stand by…
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The Schmooze No, Kathy Griffin Did NOT Call Orthodoxy A Cult
Don’t feed the trolls…even if they claim to like Jews. In a textbook example of how fake news authors prey on readers’ fears, Pizzagate conspiracy-supporter Jack Posobiec birthed the untruth that comic Kathy Griffin targeted an Orthodox Jew with “anti-Semitic hate speech” by calling him a “cult member.” In a Twitter interaction on Thursday, Griffin…
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The Schmooze WATCH: Timothée Chalamet And Steve Carell Film Looks Like ‘Notebook’-Level Tearjerker
“Titanic,” “The Notebook,” anything by “This Is Us” creator Dan Fogelman… now Timothée Chalamet and Steve Carell’s upcoming movie looks primed to top the list of movies that best clear our tear ducts. “Beautiful Boy” will open October 12, and the new, full-length trailer for the movie is already blasting open the Oscar race. Based…
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The Schmooze Ruth Bader Ginsburg Inspired Kesha’s New Pop Song, ‘Here Comes The Change’
The shofar may be away for the season, but musician and feminist advocate Kesha has sounded a new call to action, in the form of her song “Here Comes The Change,” written for the anticipated Ruth Bader Ginsburg biopic. Scoff if you want, but the woman who made a name for herself for waking up…
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The Schmooze Ben Platt Wrote A Yom Kippur Song And It’s Kind Of A Bop
Are we on a pre-fast-electrolyte-binge-Gatorade-high, or is Ben Platt’s Yom Kippur jam the song of the summer? The “Dear Evan Hansen” star and Ramah summer camp princeling joined together with rising magen-david Molly Gordon for a stirring new edition to the Yom Kippur liturgy: a brief, a capella Yom Kippur jingle. Come for the tortured-looking…
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The Schmooze Wonder Why The Emmys Weren’t Funny? Look At The List Of Writers.
The 70th Annual Emmy Awards, hosted by Colin Jost and Michael Che, exceeded all expectations: They were even more egregiously unfunny than detractors could possibly have imagined. Haters of bloated award shows, haters of the Saturday Night Live Weekend Update hosts, and people angry to be awake late on a Monday united in disparaging the…
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The Schmooze Jews Cleaned Up At The 2018 Emmy Awards
Just about every opportunity Jews had to win Emmy awards at the 70th Annual Emmy Awards on Monday night, they won. Sometimes twice. The show was clunky, generally humorless, and typically lengthy — but the Jews, the Jews were out in full force. Let’s do this. 1.The gawky, well-meant musical opener featured Andy Samberg, funny…
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The Schmooze Jewish Director Halts Emmy Awards With Historic Marriage Proposal
In a moment of live television that was somehow both shocking and predictable, an Emmy award winner used his 37 seconds of speech time to propose marriage. Three-time director of the Academy Award ceremony Glenn Weiss paused the entire 2018 Emmy Award ceremony on Monday night when he took the stage to accept the award…
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