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 Mark Zuckerberg Secretly Called To Congratulate Trump After The Election
If it’s true that the truth will out, then it will out very, very slowly. A new report from Buzzfeed News on Thursday found that Facebook creator and CEO Mark Zuckerberg made a secret phone call to Donald Trump to congratulate him after he won the 2016 presidential election. Buzzfeed spoke to three people who…
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The Schmooze Lin Manuel Miranda’s Directing Debut Will Be Movie Musical By ‘Rent’ Creator
The world’s best loved polymath will add one more skill to his impressive resume: Directing. “Hamilton” creator Lin Manuel Miranda is set to make his directing debut, helming a movie version of Jonathan Larson’s musical, “Tick, Tick…Boom!” Deadline reports. And as if the marriage of Larson, the brilliant Jewish composer-lyricist of “Rent” and Miranda wasn’t…
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The Schmooze Watch Billy Joel And Bruce Springsteen Sing ‘Born To Run’ At Joel’s 100th Garden Show
Billy Joel played the 100th performance of his Madison Square Garden residency on Wednesday night. Celebrating a momentous occasion is better with a friend, so Billy brought one of his — Bruce Springsteen. The two legends celebrated their success with a rendition of Springsteen’s “Tenth Avenue Freeze Out” — Joel on the piano, the Boss…
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The Schmooze DVF’s Auschwitz Survivor Mom Used To Trap Her In A Closet — Now She Fears Nothing
In an extraordinary interview with the Times of London, legendary Jewish fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg spoke about growing up with a mother who survived Auschwitz, marrying a prince, and why Viagra is “the worst thing that has happened to women in the last 15 years.” “I have never worn something that’s uncomfortable,” the iconic…
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The Schmooze Netflix Just Ordered Even More Israeli Television from ‘Fauda’ Makers
Get your affairs in order and charge up your laptop: Netflix has ordered a series from the creators of the hit Israeli television thriller “Fauda.” This time, Lior Raz and Avi Issacharoff have teamed up to co-author and co-produce the show “Hit and Run” with American Dawn Prestwich and Nicole Yorkin of “Melrose Place” and…
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The Schmooze WATCH: Aly Raisman And 140 ‘Sister Survivors’ Accept ESPY Award For Courage
140 women in evening gowns and jewels file onto the stage at the ESPYs, the athletic awards held by ESPN on Wednesday night. The women fall into lines, many clutching each others’ hands — rows and rows of star athletes who have gone on to become academics, doctors, mothers, lawyers, and Olympians. They overflow onto…
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The Schmooze Jewish Man Sets World Record For Slicing Watermelons Open On His Stomach
Our man Ashrita Furman has done it again — the man who is estimated to have set over 700 World Records set another on Tuesday, breaking the previously held record for number of watermelons sliced in half on his stomach in 60 seconds. The last guy did 20. Furman did 26. Furman, who identifies as…
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The Schmooze Miss Israel Is Done With the Army: ‘I Finish It With Pride’
Who has two thumbs, the “Miss Israel” crown, a modeling career, an athleisure line and a successful diplomatic international success under her belt, and finished her service in the Israeli army this week? Adar Gandelsman, that’s who. Sooo two years have passed and today I am saying goodbye to the IDF. Thanks for everything but…
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