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 ‘Y’all Country Is Nuts’: This Rapper Has Good Reasons For Never Returning To Israel
Azealia Banks says she’s never coming back to Israel. She also might be one of the country’s great defenders. Banks courts controversy wherever she goes. The dynamo 26 year-old rapper has often received fair censure for her erratic behavior (go ahead and google her tiff with Sarah Palin) since she burst onto the scene six…
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The Schmooze A Reform Floozy Attends A Chabad Young Professionals Shabbat: A Social Diary
I asked the Uber driver who took me to the “Shabbat 18,000: Chabad Young Professional Gala” to drop me off down the street. Night had fallen on the Upper East Side, and as I walked towards the security guards standing in front of the beautiful stone building I tried to tuck my cellphone into my…
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The Schmooze Olivia Munn’s Met Gala Dress ‘Inspired’ By The Crusades
The theme of the Met Gala 2018 is Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination.” All Jewish culture reporters should be sitting at home right now sipping martinis. And yet, here we are. We’re here because actress Olivia Munn, a beautiful and beloved comic actress who is not Jewish, arrived at the Met Gala in…
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The Schmooze Stress Of Getting Transgender Right Made ‘Transparent’ Star ‘Moody’: Tambor Denies Assault
Of all of the men who have been accused of sexual assault, harassment and misconduct in the public reckoning known as #MeToo, did Jeffrey Tambor escape most unharmed? Short of the President of the United States, it’s hard to think of a public figure with multiple accusations stacked against him whose career is still thriving….
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The Schmooze Jewish Artist Troye Sivan Pens Chart-Topping Gay Sex Anthem
You can bet your bottom dollar that gay sex will not remain a taboo topic in mainstream culture much longer. For this we can thank Jewish and Australian singing sensation Troye Sivan, whose new hit song “Bloom” seems to be an anthem to homosexual discovery. Sivan, 22, who rose to prominence on YouTube and Star…
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The Schmooze Ben Stiller And The Real Stormy Daniels Join Forces In Starry SNL Sketch
It was a starry and stormy night on Saturday when Ben Stiller returned to “Saturday Night Live” as Michael Cohen along with Alec Baldwin, Scarlett Johansson, Jimmy Fallon, and the flesh-and-blood stormy Daniels. In a cold open more focused on shock-value than humor, laughs and artistry come mostly from the show’s repertory players — Kate…
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The Schmooze Nic Cage’s Son Converts, Marries “Goddess” In Jewish Wedding Ceremony
On a golden day in Canyon County, California under a woven chuppa and in front of an aquamarine pool, Weston Cage Coppola married a woman he as at times referred to as a “goddess,” “my one true queen,” and “incarnation of everything I’ve ever desired.” A post shared by Weston Cage Coppola (@westoncage) on May…
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The Schmooze Stormy Daniels Smacks Down Roseanne Barr On Twitter
We’re one year and 104 days into Donald Trump’s presidency and America resembles nothing more than a cultural Boggle set. Shake it, and you get “Giuliani,” “Kanye,” “Peace in Korea,” and “smokey eye.” So it was inevitable that Stormy Daniels and Roseanne Barr, two of the biggest and most unlikely names of 2018, would eventually…
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