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 Why Is The Woman In This Viral Missy Elliott Video Holding a Shofar?
How do we know when Jews have made it in America? When neo-Nazis show up at Jerry Seinfeld shows eating tzimmes? When public schools have half-a-day for Shmini Atzeret? Or maybe, just maybe, when hip-hop karaoke videos featuring shofars go viral. Oh happy, happy Wednesday! Unintentionally kicking off Elul with a blast of early High…
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The Schmooze Ruthie Ann Miles Returns To Stage After Fatal Brooklyn Crash
Ruthie Ann Miles gave her first stage performance since the devastating car crash that killed her four-year-old daughter and resulted in the loss of her pregnancy. Returning to the role that won her a Tony Award in 2017, Miles appeared in the London production of “The King And I” on the West End as Lady…
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The Schmooze Ellie Goulding Just Got Engaged To The Man Of Your Dreams
Let’s play a little game I like to call Spot The Jew (if you’re not Jewish and you still want to play this game, please escort yourself directly to the nearest office of the ADL and await further instructions. Otherwise, carry on.) Which half of this couple do you think is Jewish? The statuesque blonde…
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The Schmooze Spike Lee: Donald Trump Should Screen My KKK Movie In The White House
Spike Lee’s “BlacKkKlansman” opens on Friday. It was already a smash hit at Cannes and has been pulling in stellar reviews from critics — even David Duke, portrayed in the movie by the affable Topher Grace, has put in a good word for Lee. But the one critic Lee hopes will take time to screen…
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The Schmooze Skylar Astin Of ‘Pitch Perfect’ Will Star As Greg In ‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’ Final Season
To borrow from another fabulous female-driven musical comedy: “Oh my god! Oh my god you guys!” In a wild (dare we say “crazy”?) turn of events, Broadway star and “Pitch Perfect” hottie Skylar Astin will star in the fourth and final season of CW’s “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” — not as a new character. As Greg. via…
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The Schmooze Ariana Grande And Pete Davidson’s Relationship As Romeo & Juliet Quotes
They’re young. They’re hot. They meet at a party while he’s in a relationship and she’s not available either. They fall into an all-consuming love where all they want to do is lie on top of each other and make sexual puns. It’s fast. It’s steamy. It’s public. And it might be doomed. It’s a…
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The Schmooze Stephen Colbert Offers To Live-Circumcise ‘Jewish’ Paul Ryan On His Show
Stephen Colbert really tore Paul Ryan a new one this weekend. Responding to last week’s revelation that Catholic Speaker of the House Paul Ryan has roughly 3 percent Ashkenazi-Jewish ancestry, Colbert asked the question weighing on so many of our hearts: “Haven’t the Jewish people suffered enough?” He went on to point out that if…
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The Schmooze ‘Resist Israeli Anti-Semitism,’ Roger Waters Announces At Poland Concert
Ah, life! Full of riddles. For example: What walks on four feet in the morning, two in the afternoon and three at night? And additionally — why did Roger Waters put up a projection at his concert in Poland reading “Resist Israeli Anti-Semitism”? This one’s a puzzler. The Pink Floyd co-founder is one of the…
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