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 ‘Captain Marvel’ Is First Major Superhero Movie Directed By A Jewish Woman
How great are your female directors, O superhero movies, your filmmakers, O Israel! Scroll through the list of people who have directed superhero movies (it’s long, believe us) and you’ll see plenty of Jewish names. Richard Donner (who changed his last name from Schwartzberg,) did the classic “Superman” films. Richard Lester (full name “Richard Lester…
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The Schmooze Jonah Hill’s Latest Music Video Stars Jerry Seinfeld And Judaism — But No Women
This week, Ezra Koenig’s band Vampire Weekend released a music video directed by Jonah Hill, starring Jerry Seinfeld. It’s a sentence that reads like a white-Jewish Madlibs, and the video, for the band’s new single “Sunflower,” has that sort of charm to it, like an Urban Outfitters helmed by a put-upon bar mitzvah party planner….
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The Schmooze 14 Purim Costume Ideas For The Lazy Jewish Girl
Purim is the holiday to beat all holidays. Excessive drinking! Tinsel-y decorations! Thematic cookies, objects that exist just to make noise, a steamy backstory about a female role model, and, of course, costumes. We’re far from the season when Sexy Plumber outfits can be purchased off the side of the road, plus who the hell…
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The Schmooze The Funniest Jewish Rage Tweets About The College Admissions Scam
A bombshell news story on Tuesday revealed that at least 50 people, among them Hollywood star Felicity Huffman and fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli, have been charged by federal prosecutors for paying to falsify their children’s test scores and bribing their way into top universities. Parents as well as college employees are being charged in a…
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The Schmooze Who Is Elizabeth Pipko, Trump’s 23-Year-Old Jewish Friend?
On Tuesday morning, the President tweeted the following, giving as the source of his information “Elizabeth Pipko, Jexodus.” “Jewish people are leaving the democratic party. We saw a lot of anti Israel policies start under the Obama administration, and it got worsts & worst. There is anti-Semitism in the Democratic Party. They don’t care about…
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The Schmooze Lea Michele Got Married Under A Luxurious Chuppah
Lea Michele, the Jewish woman who has captured America’s attention with her commanding presence, exquisite range, and soul of a diva, is officially married. The “Glee” star wed her partner Zandy Reich at an exquisite ceremony in Northern California, People Magazine reports. In the single photograph of the event that has been released to the…
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The Schmooze Here’s Israel’s Extremely Dramatic 2019 Eurovision Entry Song, ‘Home’
If you are a fan of Josh Groban’s music could be just a little more emotional, you may love this year’s Eurovision entry from the state of Israel, a song called “Home,” by Ohad Shargai and Inbar Weitzman. The ballad, which makes use of “Let It Go”-style piano, shivering cymbals, and breathy harmonies, is performed…
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The Schmooze Meet Rotem Sela, The Israeli Actress Who Provoked Netanyahu By Calling Arabs ‘Human Beings’
A world leader getting into an Instagram tussle over human rights with a bombshell actress? It would all be too far fetched, if the leader was not the cartoonishly corrupt Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and his assailant was not Rotem Sela, an Israeli model, veteran, lawyer, activist mother of three. Don’t forget to tell…
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