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 JK Rowling Blasts Trump With A Torah Quote Over Family Separation
In the early hours of the fourth of July, “Harry Potter” scribe JK Rowling took to Twitter to denounce the Trump administration’s family separation policies and resulting decisions to force toddlers as young as three years old to represent themselves in court. It’s so awful we could laugh. Or drink. But Rowling, who 4,224 pages…
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The Schmooze Controversy As Scarlett Johansson Cast As A Transgender Man
Scarlett Johansson has been cast in the provocatively titled movie “Rub and Tug,” which tells the extraordinary real-life story of Dante “Tex” Gill, a 70’s-era, mobster-esque impressario of sexual massage parlors. Tex Gill was a woman…if you ask Deadline, The Hollywood Reporter, or Variety. Tex Gill was a man…if you ask ScreenCrush. And according to…
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The Schmooze Michelle Wolf Compares Ivanka Trump To Herpes
Love her or hate her, Michelle Wolf has the sharpest tongue on television. From Ana Navarro to Alex Jones, nobody comes close to Wolf’s ability to lacerate. On a new episode of her Netflix show, “The Break With Michelle Wolf,” the notorious host of the White House Correspondence dinner compared first daughter and presidential advisor…
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The Schmooze Elton John And Shaina Taub To Create ‘Devil Wears Prada’ Musical
The devil wears Prada, and the Jews write about it. We can’t hide our nachas that wunderkind Shaina Taub has been chosen to write the lyrics for the Broadway musical of “The Devil Wears Prada,” partnering with Elton John as the show’s composer. Taub told Playbill, “Writing songs with Elton John is a joy and…
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The Schmooze Scarlett Johansson and Colin Jost’s Dinner Was Interrupted By A Clown
Michael Che and Colin Jost, or “Moonlight and La La Land,” as they are sometimes called, do a lot together — they co-host the “Weekend Update” segment of Saturday Night Live. They’re the co-head writers of the show. And together, they court A-list actress Scarlett Johansson. Technically only Jost — the boyish, endearingly smirky comic…
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The Schmooze ‘Glow’ Creators Wrote Weinstein-esque Sexual Harassment Plot Pre-#MeToo
In an episode in the second season of “Glow,” the Netflix show about 80’s-era women’s wrestling, protagonist Ruth (played by the lovely Jewish Allison Brie) plans to meet a powerful male executive for a business meeting but is tricked by a network of his associates and trapped in his bedroom, where he tries to make…
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The Schmooze Drake’s Album ‘Scorpion’ Devotes A Song To His Mom — And To Synagogue
Rapper Drake — our latter day Canadian King David — has dropped a new album, “Scorpion,” featuring a song that honors his mother, and their shared Jewish roots. In “Sandra’s Rose,” the tenth song on the artist’s fifth studio album pays homage to Drake’s mom Sandi Graham, who raised the multi-hyphenate star largely as a…
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The Schmooze Alec Baldwin To Seinfeld: #MeToo Makes Me Fear Touching My Wife
The Schmooze has a life to live — we want to pet cute dogs, read about Pete Davidson’s tattoos, find ways to use Jewish celebrity culture as a prism through which we can work to dismantle social structures — in short, we’re busy. But we have taken some time on this beautiful, sunny Friday, just…
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