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 Nic Cage’s Son Converts, Marries “Goddess” In Jewish Wedding Ceremony
On a golden day in Canyon County, California under a woven chuppa and in front of an aquamarine pool, Weston Cage Coppola married a woman he as at times referred to as a “goddess,” “my one true queen,” and “incarnation of everything I’ve ever desired.” A post shared by Weston Cage Coppola (@westoncage) on May…
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The Schmooze Stormy Daniels Smacks Down Roseanne Barr On Twitter
We’re one year and 104 days into Donald Trump’s presidency and America resembles nothing more than a cultural Boggle set. Shake it, and you get “Giuliani,” “Kanye,” “Peace in Korea,” and “smokey eye.” So it was inevitable that Stormy Daniels and Roseanne Barr, two of the biggest and most unlikely names of 2018, would eventually…
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The Schmooze Mila Kunis and Kate McKinnon Are In A Very Important Movie About Spies
“Women should get their own stories,” said Rachel Weisz, when asked recently if she was interested in seeing a remake of the Bond films with a female protagonist. “Why not create your own story?” It is with that spirit of intrepid female creativity that we introduce Schmooze readers to the trailer for what may be…
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The Schmooze Mitt Romney’s ‘Favorite Meat is Hot Dog’ — But Does He Eat Hebrew National?
“My favorite meat is hot dog,” Utah senate candidate Mitt Romney announced today. Now he’s getting roasted. We have a beef with Romney — are these hot dogs kosher, or not? Let’s begin by taking a look at the exact quote, in a profile of Romney in the Washington Examiner this week. So does Mitt…
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The Schmooze Meghan Markle Was Maid of Honor In Her Best Friend’s Jewish Wedding
It was with a somberness bordering on despair that we learned last year that future royal Meghan Markle is not Jewish. It hit us like a Roman centurion hitting the Second Temple: Meghan Markle would never attend a Jewish wedding in the church of England. (^Those were the days) Except Meghan Markle did attend a…
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The Schmooze Roman Polanski Appealing After Motion Picture Academy Expels Him, Bill Cosby
If millennials are spoiled in part because they were given too many participation trophies, then boomers are leading us into complete social collapse because they want awards for denouncing a child rapist a mere 41 years after he admitted to rape. Get the justice league over at the Motion Picture Academy Association a couple of…
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The Schmooze Is Sex A Human Right? The Talmud Passage That Has The Answer Has Gone Viral.
The Talmud is like that friend of yours who has something to say about everything, and everything to say about sex. It’s a sizable text (the Steinsaltz Bavli Talmud, for example, is 29 volumes in total) that acts like a great, organically growing comments section — a literary Jewish reddit spanning hundreds of years, written…
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The Schmooze ‘New Girl’ Demonstrates A Jewish Headstone Unveiling…For Cats
Orthodox Jews accuse lapsed Jews of bar mitzvah-ing their dogs. Non-Orthodox accuse Orthodox of harboring an antiquated fear of pets. And the on Tuesday night on the “Fox” comedy “New Girl,” a group of non-Jewish friends celebrated a deceased cat’s Jewish headstone unveiling ceremony, to the dulcet tones of Enya. via GIPHY Some people feel…
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