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 Coach Uses Hillel ‘If Not Now’ Quote To Sell High-End Bags
The luxury leather accessories brand Coach is employing Rabbi Hillel’s famous maxim to sell purses, it seems. A tipster sent the Schmooze an Instagram ad for Coach — an image of the brand’s classic design of oblong ‘C’s underneath the words “If Not Now, When?” The famous saying belongs to the first century rabbinic scholar…
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The Schmooze Samantha Bee Issues Defiant Apology For Calling Ivanka The C-Word
The host of TBS’ “Full Frontal” floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee, but how does she apologize? Defiantly, viewers learned last night, when Samantha Bee issued an on-air apology for calling first daughter and advisor to the president Ivanka Trump a “feckless c—t” last week. “It is a word I have used…
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The Schmooze Roseanne Retweets Claim: Valerie Jarrett ‘Wants Jews Chased Into The Sea’
Just five minutes after claiming on Twitter “I’m making restitution for the pain I have caused,” Roseanne Barr endorsed a statement from another user that alleged that former Obama advisor Valerie Jarrett has genocidal aspirations towards Israelis and Jews everywhere. That Barr retweeted this inflammatory accusation is ironic, since the “pain” she caused was an…
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The Schmooze Sit Down, Shut Up, And Watch Rudy Giuliani Partying In Jerusalem
I don’t care if you think Rudy Giuliani is the last sane man in America or a baldheaded minion of Satan: there is something for everyone to enjoy in this clip of the former Mayor of New York City partying at a Jerusalem restaurant. In a clip posted to Twitter by Yael Friedson, a writer…
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The Schmooze Mandy Patinkin Sang Pop Hit In Yiddish On The Late, Late Show
Well, it’s been a big week for Irving Berlin. Berlin, the master songwriter who immigrated to America with his family at the turn of the century to escape pogroms, was named on Tuesday in a national conversation about whether our president knows the lyrics to his song “God Bless America.” On the very same day,…
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The Schmooze ‘Sex and the City’ Just Turned 20. Its Treatment of Jews Was Downright Medieval.
The most prominent Jewish character on “Sex and the City,” a TV show about wealthy New York professional women, appears in the penultimate season of the hit HBO show. In an episode that appeared in September 2002, lawyer Harry Goldenblatt storms on screen shouting and gesticulating incomprehensibly. He has intruded on a sensitive meeting in…
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The Schmooze Trump Forgot The Words To Irving Berlin’s ‘God Bless America’
I can recite most words of Birkat Hamazon, a Hebrew blessing can take up to eight minutes to complete, but I can’t sing a single verse of “God Bless America.” Neither can President Donald Trump, apparently, who was caught on tape fumbling the lyrics at his “Celebrate America” event on Tuesday. I feel fine about…
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The Schmooze No One Can Pretend To Be Shocked By Roseanne’s Racism
Roseanne Barr has succeeded against all odds. Wowing an American populace who once doubted her, she has confirmed her ability to be wildly racist and Islamophobic in a single tweet. In a comment on Twitter which has since been deleted, the actress described former Obama aide Valerie Jarrett, saying, “muslim brotherhood & planet of the…
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