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 ‘Roseanne Who?’ Valerie Jarrett Is Just Fine, Thanks For Asking
Valerie Jarrett sprang back into the public eye in May, when Roseanne Barr tweeted a deeply racist personal attack on her, resulting in her show “Roseanne” being cancelled. But before that, Jarrett, the former advisor to President Obama, was trilingual, a senior law professor, a board member of an investment group, and an ongoing advisor…
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The Schmooze Ivanka Trump Is Excited To Have Karlie Kloss As Her ‘Sister’
When Ivanka Trump married Jared Kushner in 2009, she gained a brother in the form of the younger Kushner brother, Joshua. When Joshua Kushner marries supermodel and tech influencer Karlie Kloss, she’ll gain another sister. “So, so happy for you and Josh!” Trump commented on Kloss’ Instagram announcement. “I feel blessed to have you as…
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The Schmooze Joshua Kushner Got Karlie Kloss A Ring The Size of A Beach Ball
Astrophysicists announced today that the earth will soon cease to revolve around the sun, and will instead begin to orbit around the enormous engagement ring Joshua Kushner gave Karlie Kloss. Beautiful model and decent-seeming-person Karlie Kloss announced her engagement to Joshua Kushner on Tuesday. Kushner, the auxiliary son in a family best known for the…
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The Schmooze Georgia Rep Resigns After Screaming N-Word on Sacha Baron Cohen’s Show
Jason Spencer, the Georgia State GOP representative who appeared on Sacha Baron Cohen’s “Who Is America” on Sunday night, has resigned. One could say he was caught with his pants down. The disgraced representative had already been defeated in his primary and was set to leave office in November when footage aired of him on…
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The Schmooze You Haven’t Seen The Hora Till You’ve Seen It Done On Jet Packs
It’s been a long, hard, emotionally exhausting week, and we are sad to report that it is only Tuesday. A video of Orthodox men performing a synchronized jet pack dance is the only thing that can save us now. In the most audacious bit of Jewish filmmaking since Mel Brooks made “Blazing Saddles,” BarStool Sports…
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The Schmooze Ding Dong, The Kitsch Is Dead: Ivanka Trump Clothing Just Folded
See you in hell, pastel cardigans manufactured in Ethiopian sweatshops. Ivanka Trump’s namesake clothing brand will shutter, Trump said on Tuesday. The first daughter and advisor to the president issued a statement on the closing of the brand, which has faced intense criticism for, among other things, its treatment of workers and manufacturing in third-world…
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The Schmooze Karlie Kloss And Joshua Kushner Are Engaged, And We Think She Already Converted To Judaism
It finally happened. Karlie Kloss, the supermodel-turned-coder, is finally engaged to her longtime partner, Jewish princeling Joshua Kushner. In an effusive caption of a picture of the couple on Instagram, Kloss wrote, “I love you more than I have words to express. Josh, you’re my best friend and my soulmate. I can’t wait for forever…
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The Schmooze Fox News Falsely Reports Lena Dunham Campaigned for Cynthia Nixon In Underwear
“Fox News Blurs the Facts of a Story to Make an Obscure Point Denigrating Women” is hardly breaking news at this point, any more than “Airplanes Go Up In the Air” is breaking news. But we feel honor bound, and also bound by the cumulative one million hours we’ve spent watching HBO content, to report…
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