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 Don’t You Dare Claim To Be Jewish, Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan is a hypocrite who has devoted his career to disenfranchising poor, non-white citizens to curry favor with the rich. His life’s work has been making existence harder for most Americans. And we’ll be damned if he gets to claim he’s Jewish. Guess I need to start saying “L’Chaim” now, too! pic.twitter.com/JV8tVPeBto — Paul…
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The Schmooze That Time When Seth Rogen Told Tom Cruise About Internet Porn
Judd Apatow told Stephen Colbert that Seth Rogen taught Tom Cruise about internet porn. Now I know, I know, you’re asking yourself — is this the kind of news Abe Cahan imagined in the early days of the Forward? Would Isaac Bashevis Singer have tolerated this malarkey? Rather, you should be asking yourself — from…
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Books Israel Just Detained The Writer of the Ultimate Arab-Jewish Coming-Of-Age Novel
Israeli author Moriel Rothman-Zecher was detained and questioned at Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv this week, before being released and told to think of the conversation as a “warning.” Rothman-Zecher, the 28-year-old author of the novel “Sadness is A White Bird,” was stopped by an official identifying as a member of Shin-Bet, the Israeli…
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The Schmooze Tiffany Haddish: Men Fear Women Who Are Aggressive. That’s How I Protect Myself.
Who’s afraid of the big bad Tiffany Haddish? Men — and that’s how she likes it. The hottest comedian of the year told Glamour magazine that her experiences with abuse in foster care, alleged rape at the hands of a police cadet at 17, an allegedly abusive ex-husband, and directors and producers who tried to…
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The Schmooze Ivanka Trump’s Ex-Boyfriend Is Starring In ‘BlacKkKlansman’ As David Duke
Ivanka Trump and Topher Grace both have impressive resumes. Their LinkedIns, if they had them, would be magnificent. Trump has modeled. Grace is an actor. Trump had a business; yes, it failed, but now she has more time for her work in the White House. Grace made so much money starring on “That 70’s Show”…
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The Schmooze Stephen Colbert Confronts Les Moonves, His Boss, In Brave Monologue
It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends. Sure, that’s what a certain fictional wizard said before awarding ten points to Gryffindor. (Happy birthday, Harry Potter!) Today, it’s true of Stephen Colbert as well. Colbert knew nothing, he said on…
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The Schmooze Mila Kunis And Ashton Kutcher’s Love Story Is Straight Out Of A Romantic Comedy
Mila Kunis and Natalie Portman are our shiniest examples of the American Jewish dream. Kunis’s family came to the US from the USSR with only $250 when she was a child. Portman’s parents, descended from Holocaust survivors, emigrated to the US from Israel for her father’s work as a doctor. Kunis is brash and sexy…
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The Schmooze Annie Leibovitz Will Shoot Stormy Daniels For Vogue
Who run the world? More and more, it’s not the people who used to. It was announced today that Annie Leibovitz will photograph Stormy Daniels for a feature article either in Vogue’s September or October issue. Additionally, Beyoncé will be featured on the vaunted September issue cover, and has been given almost complete creative control…
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