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 Leave It To Howard Stern To Say Something Vulgar About Leonard Cohen
Loyal readers of The Schmooze know that I, a low ranking blogger born in the 1990s, feel that I was placed on this earth by God for one purpose: to find and destroy Howard Stern. But I will allow a brief detente in the one-way war of words between the mangled bag of aging irrelevancy…
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The Schmooze Henry Winkler Shows Off His Yiddish Vocabulary
Who would have predicted that Henry Winkler, who became a household name in America as Arthur Fonzarelli (“The Fonz”) on “Happy Days” over 40 years ago, would be one of the most charming men in America in 2018? In an interview last week with People, the 72 year-old Winkler went on to quietly prove, as…
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The Schmooze Billy Eichner And MSNBC Host Have The Homoerotic Tension Of A Greco-Roman Vase
Comedian Billy Eichner appeared on MSNBC’s The Beat With Ari Melber last week, in what can only be described as an orgy of Jewish male charisma. Melber, whom I had never heard of due to being a millennial non-TV owner, is, apparently a lawyer who succeeded Greta Van Susteren at MSNBC and used to write…
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The Schmooze ‘Diner Lobster’ Is Saturday Night Live’s Most Brilliant Sketch This Season
Who am I? It’s a question Moses asks, standing in the searing heat of the burning bush. It’s a question Jean Val Jean, hero of the seminal Broadway musical “Les Miserables” asks, in lyrics written first in French by Jewish lyricist Alain Boubil, and then adapted for English by Jewish lyricist Herbert Kretzmer. And it’s…
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The Schmooze Planned Parenthood ‘Kills Females’ Nominee Asked About Dr. Ruth Quote
There’s a lot that people don’t know about sex therapist and sexual evangelist Doctor Ruth Westheimer. The 4’7” Holocaust survivor was a sniper in Israel’s 1948 War of Independence. She maintains one of the best Twitters in existence. She is quadrilingual. And one of her early jobs was as a researcher at Planned Parenthood. In…
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The Schmooze Take A Look At Zsa Zsa Gabor’s Belongings Before Her 9th Husband Sells Them
These days, when every celebrity is having every other celebrity’s babies and popping in and out of rehab, really make you nostalgic for the classy glamor of old Hollywood. In other news, Zsa Zsa Gabor’s ninth husband, a prince who allegedly bought his way into royalty via adult adoption following managing a gay German sauna,…
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The Schmooze ‘Broad City’ Will End Next Season, But Abbi And Ilana Have More In Store
If you love someone, set them free. If they come back, you know their yours. It’s not just something I’ve heard a surprising number of men say about trades in sports; it’s also the mantra we’ll be repeating to ourselves in those cold winter nights in 2020, when Comedy Central’s “Broad City” is no more….
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The Schmooze James Comey’s Favorite Jews
Stormy Daniels is going to have to get in line after James Comey as 2018’s least likely celebrity. The former director of the FBI has launched a triumphant comeback. The 57 year-old was once regarded as a shifty-eyed bureaucrat who, arguably, maneuvered his role in the Hilary Clinton email investigation to influence American politics and…
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