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 Natalie Portman Politely Schools Scorsese, Coppola On Why People Like Marvel Movies
It’s not easy to make Harvard-educated multi-millionaire super model Oscar-nominee Natalie Portman look like the people’s hero. But that’s where we are this week, thanks to Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola. The two legendary directors grabbed headlines this month when they declared their disdain for movies from Marvel, the superhero blockbuster factory that gave…
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The Schmooze Simchat Torah Is Drunk Jewish Book-Club, With Dancing
The morning sky is pitch black, the children’s pencils are no longer sharp and their backpacks are bursting with shards of construction paper, the heat hasn’t been turned on yet, and every surface in your kitchen is unpleasantly sticky with honey residue. Well put on a chunky sweater and take a swig of Manischewitz, bitch,…
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The Schmooze Sacha Baron Cohen Slams Mark Zuckerberg For Facebook’s Latest Policy
Sacha Baron Cohen called out Mark Zuckerberg’s morality on Twitter on Thursday. Sure — the Facebook founder’s got 99 problems, and receiving a lecture from “Borat” is just one more. But when two of the world’s favorite bar mitzvah boys have a dispute in the public square about how to fight misinformation, hate, and Nazism,…
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Life First Trans Actor In A Marvel Movie Talks ‘Spider-Man,’ Judaism, And The Importance Of Representation
When “Transparent,” Amazon’s sharp, candy-colored TV show, premiered in 2014, it was a landmark of representation and storytelling for transgender people. You know, just like “Spider-Man: Far From Home.” The most recent entry to the “Spider” canon has earned over one billion dollars — it’s the most successful of the “Spider-Man” movies, and Sony’s highest-grossing…
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The Schmooze Who Is Irena Sendler, The Catholic Holocaust Hero Who Gal Gadot Will Play In Upcoming Biopic?
When Germany invaded Warsaw in 1939, Irena Sendler was just a 29-year-old Polish social worker. By the end of the war, she had saved untold thousands of Jews. Even a death sentence and imprisonment did not stop Irena Sendler from saving Jewish children. That’s a true wonder woman. Gal Gadot, who dazzled the world as…
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The Schmooze ‘JoJo Rabbit,’ A Holocaust Comedy, Is Good For The Jews
German 10-year-old JoJo Betzler is a young boy with a simple dream: hunt Jews, make friends, get girls, blow stuff up. It’s the twilight of World War II and, from JoJo’s perspective, things are going most spiffingly. He lives in a tiny German town with buildings that look like iced buns, and spends his days…
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The Schmooze Zoe Kravitz Ushers In The Era Of Jewish Catwoman
For people who believe that Jews run Hollywood, the hits just keep on comin’ — it was announced on Monday that Zoe Kravitz, the preternaturally cool actress daughter of Lisa Bonet and Lenny Kravitz, will star opposite Robert Pattinson in Matt Reeves’ upcoming Batman movie. Kravitz, who you may know from her turn on “Big…
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The Schmooze Sarah Silverman Takes Down The ‘Tortured Artist’ Myth: ‘Klonopin Saved My Life’
Many funny people suffer from depression, substance abuse, and other mental health problems. Therefore to be funny, you must be sad. Getting treatment or asking for help dulls your funny. Right? Nah, says Sarah Silverman in a new, freely available documentary from Funny Or Die and SoulPancake. Untreated mental health issues aren’t the secret sauce…
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