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 To Play Twin Sister Advice Columnists — And She’ll Direct The Movie, Too
Crown Princess of the World and Jew of Extraordinary Fame Natalie Portman will play the twin sisters and advice columnists who went by the names “Dear Abby” and “Ann Landers” in a movie that she will direct herself. Good grief. Setting aside our bitterness that Portman will likely achieve this daunting feat while remaining ludicrously…
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The Schmooze Ignoring BDS Pressure, Lana Del Rey Gets It Right On Israel — And Adds Visit To Palestinian Territories
Lana Del Rey — a pop singer whose enigmatic persona masks an eerie history of self-branding — is modeling a new look: Integrity. The 33-year-old performer recently found herself caught in the crosshairs that fix on all global musical acts at some point or another, when she received major criticism for agreeing to perform in…
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Culture I Let My Rabbi Mom Control My Dating Apps
When Beth Singer was a rabbi at her first full-time pulpit, she went into labor when she was about to perform a funeral. Her contractions were coming 20 minutes apart, so she decided to proceed with the funeral. Jewish funerals rarely last longer than 40 minutes, so she knew she could time one contraction for…
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The Schmooze Museum Visitor Injured After Falling Into Anish Kapoor Mock Abyss Art Installation
Sometimes, you get contemporary art. And sometimes, contemporary art gets you. Such a visitor to the Serralves Museum in Portugal learned last week after falling into an instillation by Jewish artist Anish Kapoor. “Descent Into Limbo,” Kapoor’s 1992 work, features a circle in the ground painted pitch black. Despite signs and guards warning guests not…
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The Schmooze Drake Exchanged Autographs With A Little Girl Waiting For A Heart Transplant
Sometimes, Aubrey Drake Graham makes it so easy to love him. On Monday, the record-breaking Jewish rapper surprised 11-year-old Sofia Sanchez at Chicago’s Lurie Children’s Hospital after a video of Sanchez and her (adorable) cousin doing the popular “In My Feelings” challenge caught the singer’s attention online, BuzzFeedNews reports. Sanchez, who just underwent heart surgery…
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The Schmooze Jon Stewart Rescued The 2 Goats Wandering On New York Subway Tracks
Behold! He who protecteth Israel will neither slumber nor sleep. — Psalm 121:4 High on a (moral) hill lived a lonely goatherd, and that goatherd’s name was John Stewart. When two escaped goats were found roaming the tracks of the N train in Brooklyn (between the Fort Hamilton Parkway stop and the 8th Avenue stop,…
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The Schmooze Gloria Steinem Hates Lipstick But Made A Lip Balm To Benefit Incarcerated Women
“I never wear lipstick,” Gloria Steinem told Vogue. “But I can support a lip balm.” Steinem is a human rights icon, a celebrated writer, and a living hero of history. She also happens to be a paragon of gorgeous style. What’s a girl to do? In Steinem’s case, the answer is a genius workaround —…
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The Schmooze JK Rowling Blasts British Anti-Semitism On Twitter
The woman who wrote a seven-book series featuring unforgettable Jewish side-character Anthony Goldstein has taken to Twitter to call out instances of anti-Semitism across the web. JK Rowling, as handy with a click as she is with the quill, took to the web on Monday to post screenshots of anti-Semitism from the internet, focussing on…
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