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 John Goodman: ‘Roseanne’ Cancellation Broke My Heart
Zichrona Livra-blah. John Goodman told The Times that in the upcoming “Roseanne” reboot redux, “The Connors,” the character Roseanne Connor will be killed off to accommodate the fact that Roseanne Barr was fired from the show after a racist tweet. Welp, there’s no use crying over spilt racist venom, in our opinion. But John Goodman…
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The Schmooze Louis CK Returns To Comedy Months After Admitting Sexual Misconduct
(Sing to the mournful tune of the “Louis” theme song:) Louie Louie Louie! Louie Louie Louie! Louie Louie Louie! Louie you’re gonna cry. We’re in full-throttle Elul now, just weeks before the High Holidays begin in earnest, and yet another man has announced that the time has come to forgive him. It’s been fewer than…
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The Schmooze Aziz Ansari Returns From #MeToo Exile. Maybe With A Swastika Joke, We Don’t Know.
This post originally contained references to material from Vulture.com, they were not permitted to publish. It has since been removed. It’s Elul, the month in the Hebrew calendar that marks the time of apologies and forgiveness. And yet again, a man has decided it is time for us to forgive him. Aziz Ansari was a…
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The Schmooze Fact Check On Ivanka Trump’s Women’s Equality Day Post
On Sunday, the nation celebrated (sort of) the anniversary of the 19th Amendment, when (white) women were granted the right to vote. Marked on the calendar as “Women’s Equality Day,” the half-baked holiday has been proclaimed by presidents and celebrated on August 26 ever since the 1920 day that the amendment was signed. Over the…
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The Schmooze The Hospitalized Girl Who Met Drake Is Getting Her Heart Transplant!
Warning: this is going to get you in your feelings. The 11-year-old girl who received a surprise visit from Drake for her birthday during her hospitalization for heart surgery is going to receive an even greater gift: A new heart. Sofia Sanchez, a cardiomyopathy patient in treatment at Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago learned on…
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The Schmooze I Went To A Comedy Show Called ‘LOL Nidre’ And I’m Not Sorry
I learned about the all-Jewish comedy show “LOL Nidrei” just hours before it occurred. Yet I was determined to face any water, fire, storm, wild beast, famine, or thirst in my way to get there. My reasons follow: 1.Much like a gift horse, you don’t look an Aramaic pun in the mouth. You accept the…
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The Schmooze One Of The ‘Queer Eye’ Guys Is Going To Be On ‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’
Tan France has the best hair in the English-speaking world and soon he will have a credit on the best musical-comedy TV show. In the best collaboration since truffle oil and anything, “Queer Eye” reboot star Tan France will make his acting debut in a guest-star role on the final season of CW’s “Crazy Ex…
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The Schmooze The 16 Types Of Jewish Men You’ll Date In New York
In the Torah, God promises Abraham more children than there are stars in the sky and grains of sand in the sea. God is such a drama queen. But those children do tend to congregate — New York has the highest Jewish population of any city in the world other than Tel Aviv — higher,…
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