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 ‘Frozen II’ Is Finally Happening — Here’s The First Look At The ‘Epic’ Sequel
Born of cold and winter air And mountain rain combining This icy force both foul and fair Has a frozen heart worth mining! So cut through the red tape, negotiate well Get Idina Menzel and Kristin Bell There’s piles of cash in tickets to sell Split the frames apart! Give ‘Frozen II’ a start. Yes,…
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The Schmooze CBS Fired Les Moonves, Citing Sexual Misconduct. Now He’s Back In Business.
Les Moonves presided over CBS for decades, breathing into existence shows like “Friends,” “Survivor,” and “The Big Bang Theory.” Under his leadership, CBS was the most-watched network in America for 10 years. In September 2018, Moonves resigned from CBS, following over a dozen accusations of sexual misconduct, which a later independent investigation found credible. Now,…
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The Schmooze Mass Die-In To Protest The OxyContin Sackler Family By Nan Goldin At The Guggenheim
If you were at the Guggenheim Museum on Saturday you could have caught a free new exhibit, created by Jewish artist Nan Goldin and her group “PAIN” (Prescription Addiction Intervention Now.) Around 6:30pm, flurries of fake scripts fell from the ceiling of the iconic building, proscribing Solomon R. Guggenheim 80 mg of OcyContin, to be…
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The Schmooze The ‘Wicked’ Musical Movie Adaptation Is Finally Happening
Something has changed within me. What is this feeling, so sudden and new? The smash Broadway musical “Wicked” is finally, finally going to be a big-budget Hollywood movie, produced by Universal pictures for December 2021. Thank goodness! When “Wicked,” the untold story of the Wicked Witch of the West (and all that happened before “Dorothy…
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The Schmooze Going To Synagogue Makes You Happier, Pew Study Finds
A Pew study has good news for Jews in pews and dues-paying Hebrews — going to synagogue, or regularly engaging with any religious community, really does make you happier. New analysis from the Pew Research Center found that “regular participation in a religious community” was linked to greater happiness for people in the US and…
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The Schmooze Amazon Doesn’t Want To Make Woody Allen’s Films. So He’s Suing Them.
Woody Allen is confused. In late August 2017, Amazon Studios acquired exclusive rights to the next four movies made by Woody Allen. Amazon Studio head Roy Price told Allen that he wanted the studio to be his home for the rest of his career. Now, Amazon Studios doesn’t want to make any more of Allen’s…
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Opinion The Most Jewish Super Bowl In History And Other Good News For The Jews
Percy Bysshe Shelley was not a Jew (sometimes, the name really is a dead giveaway.) But the poet was right when he said, “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?” As polar vortexes bring arctic breezes, the warmth of Spring is already on its way. Here are five moments of pride and joy from…
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The Schmooze The New Falafel Emoji Is…Not Good.
It is an ongoing debate among US leaders — should the United States be the world’s policemen? And so, too, we find ourselves wondering — should the Forward be the emoji Jew-ish food police people? We find ourselves at it again, obligated to observe that the new designs for the falafel emoji look like soot-covered…
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