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 Prince William Is Right About Holocaust Museums
Prince William visited Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust museum and memorial, as part of his visit to Israel on Tuesday. American leaders who have visited the sight have venerated it — Hillary Clinton called Yad Vashem “a testament to the power of truth” and President Obama wrote that it serves as “a powerful reminder.” George Bush…
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The Schmooze Michael Douglas Embraces #MeToo Even Amid Potential Accusation
Michael Douglas is in a unique position. The actor is an avid, outspoken fan of the #MeToo movement. He is enthusiastic about recognizing wrongdoing in his industry and enforcing equal hiring practices and making more women’s voices heard. “I support the movement wholeheartedly,” Douglas told the Associated Press on Monday. Douglas also has reason to…
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The Schmooze Jerry Seinfeld Says Roseanne Should Be Recast: ‘There’s Other Funny Women Who Could Do That Part’
For someone whose comedy heyday was around the time of my 3rd birthday, Jerry Seinfeld likes it to be known that he respects comedy above all else. The standup star has always made it clear that comedy comes before activism for him, even as newcomers continue to blend the two seamlessly. But speaking to Entertainment…
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The Schmooze Ron Perlman Peed On His Hand Before Shaking Harvey Weinstein’s
Is it okay to secretly urinate on your hand before shaking another person’s hand if that person is an alleged sexual tyrant? For a book that’s almost infinity pages long, the Talmud is surprisingly quiet on this issue. Ron Perlman, the leonine actor you may have enjoyed in such films as “Hellboy” or “Hellboy II,”…
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The Schmooze Rachel Bloom Tells Adolf Eichmann’s Story on ‘Drunk History’
“Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” star Rachel Bloom. Weird Al Yankovic. Adolf Eichmann. Buster Bluth. No, it’s not the theme of my bat mitzvah party, it’s a new episode of “Drunk History.” Huzzah! God has truly smiled on us. For today the TV show “Drunk History” — which plies historians with enormous amounts of alcohol and asks them…
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The Schmooze If You Don’t Watch Netflix’s Hit ‘Set It Up’ Soon, You’ll Be Irrelevant
“Set It Up,” a Netflix original movie, is the sleeper hit of the summer. The romantic comedy that showed up at the top of everyone’s Netflix home page this week is one hour and forty-five minutes of untrammeled joy in a ruthlessly miserable world. We bring it to your attention because it was written by…
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The Schmooze The ‘Anti-Semitic’ Jokes On Tina Fey’s ‘Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’ Are Pretty Funny
Jews love to get offended, and for good reason — the world is disgusting and most people hate us! So when we heard that the fourth season of Tina Fey’s Netflix show “The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” was offensive towards Jews, we were eager to throw ourselves into the fray. One of our favorite Jewish publications…
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The Schmooze Seth Rogen Refused To Take A Picture With Paul Ryan, In Front Of Ryan’s Kids
Seth Rogen is taking his role as a tastemaker, public figure, and social commentator seriously — in the past 10 hours he has tweeted seven pictures of cats. On Friday, the mild-mannered Canadian Jewish dreamboat (that’s right) told Stephen Colbert that he took a picture with Paul Ryan’s children but refused to take one with…
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