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 Rihanna On Drake: “We Don’t Have A Friendship Now”
In 2016 at the VMA awards, international superstar Rihanna gave one of the great performances of her career before receiving the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award. But before Rihanna could accept her accolade, the rapper Drake delivered a speech about the singer so overwrought that headlines the next day were not “Rihanna Triumphant At VMAs”…
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The Schmooze Facebook Will Unveil Online Dating Option And It’s ‘Not Just For Hookups’
Citizens who have always wished Mark Zuckerberg would get more involved in your dating lives, rejoice! Facebook has announced it will be dipping a toe (a thumb) into the world of online dating. The website that has pried into dating lives since its earliest days of forcing users to divulge their dating status to the…
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The Schmooze Despite Tambor Allegations, Netflix Will Release ‘Arrested Development’ Season 5
The painfully funny series “Arrested Development” will return for a fifth season in painful times. Despite allegations of sexual harassment by former co-workers against “Arrested” star Jeffrey Tambor, Netflix is set to announce a release date for the show’s belated fifth season very soon. Michel Hurwitz, the show’s creator, said on Tuesday that the new…
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The Schmooze Alt-Right Bully Is Too Weak To Rip Up Rainbow Sign
“Proud Boys,” designated as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, is an alt-right organization made of “proud western chauvinists” that aims to rip apart social norms by acts like ending welfare and giving everyone a gun. Sadly, a man affiliated with Proud Boys who counter-protested at an event for workers’ and immigrants’…
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The Schmooze Scarlett Johansson And ‘Infinity War’ Cast Read Really, Really Mean Tweets
As someone who has paid the minimum amount of attention to the “Avengers” movies possible for a professional entertainment writer, I would say that “Avengers: Infinity War” appears to be a $320 million trailer designed to make people sad and confused enough to pay to see the next “Avengers” movie. So it is refreshing to…
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Culture A Good Man Is Hard To Find (At A Jewish Youth Convention)
When I worked at a Jewish summer camp, I developed a philosophy of dating that I based on a Jewish sports game called gaga. Gaga is a primitive ball-based game that takes place in a pit and involves maneuvering a rubber ball to hit other players in the shins or feet (they’ve never, ever let…
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The Schmooze Bibi’s Iran Speech Inspires Hilarious Memes
One of the most underestimated weapons of 21st century political warfare must be the meme. Laugh (or, more likely, grumble irrelevantly about the decline of human intellect,) but crudely photoshopped image and word combinations really do change social climates and elections. And somehow, in the two times that Benjamin Netanyahu has delivered major speeches about…
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The Schmooze Robin Williams Did Private Standup For Spielberg To Cheer Him Up During ‘Schindler’s List”
Imagine what hell it must be to make a movie, write a book, or put together any piece of work about the Holocaust. Full immersion in the facts of mass genocide for months or years on end is psychological torture, whatever accolades or payment one may receive for it. Reflecting on the making of “Schindler’s…
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