Jenny Singer is a freelance writer with pieces in Vox, the Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, Teen Vogue, and more. She was previously a staff writer at Glamour and the Forward, and she’s currently getting an MFA in nonfiction writing at the University of Iowa.
Jenny Singer
By Jenny Singer
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The Schmooze I Demand Justice For Jane Averbukh, Jewish ‘Bachelor In Paradise’ Contestant
In the ABC reality TV show “The Bachelor” and its twin “The Bachelorette,” dozens of beautiful people try to simultaneously date one slightly befuddled person. Those shows, where a horde of contestants of a single gender live together in an eerie mansion, waiting to be selected for “fantasy suite” nights of sex with a Bachelor…
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The Schmooze Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Kate McKinnon Attend ‘Fiddler On The Roof’ In Yiddish
The rabbi, learned and wise, is the most important member of any shtetl. That is, unless Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and “Saturday Night Live” star Kate McKinnon show up. That’s just what happened on Tuesday night at Stage 42, the Off-Broadway theater where the Folksbiene’s celebrated Yiddish-language revival of “Fiddler on the Roof”…
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The Schmooze Amazon Would Still Like You To Buy ‘Tisha B’Av Jewish Rabbi Yoga Pants’
Time to go to the gym! Grab your sneakers, your water bottle, your headphones or earbuds or air pods. And don’t forget to slip on your Tisha B’Av Jewish Rabbi Yoga Pants Gym Leggings. That bizarro word salad represents, apparently, a product sold by the e-commerce giant Amazon. Tisha B’av, known as the saddest day…
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The Schmooze Drake’s New Tattoo Depicts Him Dissing The Beatles
“In the next life, I’m tryna stay paid,” the rapper Drake announces on a recent single. “When I die, put my money in the grave.” That request may be fulfilled sooner rather than later, now that the rapper has mortally offended every living Beatles fan. The 32-year-old rapper is partial to tattoos and self-aggrandizement, and…
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The Schmooze Simone Biles’ Historic New Floor Routine Has A Jewish Background
This week, Simone Biles made history. It’s a sentence that journalists may soon tire of writing — the 22-year-old Olympic gymnast is simply one of the most extraordinary athletes to have ever lived. At the U.S. Gymnastics Championships in Kansas City this weekend, she won six U.S. all-around titles, tying for the most in women’s…
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The Schmooze 36 Things Jewish Men Say On Dates When They Realize I’m Jewish, Too
Recently, I found myself on a date with someone I was sure was Jewish. We were in New York, and he had brown hair and the first name of a biblical hero — what was I supposed to do, ask to see his foreskin? He was not Jewish, as it turned out. And on our…
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The Schmooze Watch Ariana Grande And Barbra Streisand Belt Their Hearts Out
Like the moon and the sun, the boundless sky and the deep blue sea, like a shimmering blonde blowout and a gigantic ponytail, Barbra Streisand and Ariana Grande, two queens of entertainment, have met at last. The 77 year-old Jewish singer and cultural icon performed at Chicago’s United Center on Tuesday night, a one-night-only spectacular…
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The Schmooze The Owner Of Soul Cycle And Equinox Is Hosting A Huge Trump Fundraiser
“Find your soul.” “You did not wake up to be mediocre.” “I am…enough.” Such are the phrases you will hear if you enter a SoulCycle, the wildly popular fitness company that offers group stationary-biking classes and mood-lit spirituality for a steep fee. (A single class at a Manhattan SoulCycle costs $36, which is 2.5 times…
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