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Phoebe Maltz BovyThe Globe and Mail |
What happened in the past 12 months? Rather a lot! So to pare it down, I’m limiting this end-of-year recap to things that kept popping up on my own...
Perhaps the woman behind the book On Being Jewish Now is a bit like Philip Roth after all. It was a whole lot easier to be a post-parochialism Jew...
For the past two weeks, in the course of discussing the 75-author anthology book On Being Jewish Now—and anti-antisemitic outreach more...
Back in 1963, the late Philip Roth wrote an essay for Commentary entitled “Writing About Jews.” It’s a powerful manifesto about the purpose of...
Perhaps the woman behind the book On Being Jewish Now is a bit like Philip Roth after all. It was a whole lot easier to be a post-parochialism Jew...
If one were going by discourse, vibes, ink spilled, things of that nature, Donald Trump would have won the Jewish vote in the U.S. presidential...
Back in 1963, the late Philip Roth wrote an essay for Commentary entitled “Writing About Jews.” It’s a powerful manifesto about the purpose of...
If one were going by discourse, vibes, ink spilled, things of that nature, Donald Trump would have won the Jewish vote in the U.S. presidential...
In the before-times, a personal essay in a century-old women’s magazine about home-baked challah, in which the writer discusses how this ritual...
Back in 1963, the late Philip Roth wrote an essay for Commentary entitled “Writing About Jews.” It’s a powerful manifesto about the purpose of...
Back in 1963, the late Philip Roth wrote an essay for Commentary entitled “Writing About Jews.” It’s a powerful manifesto about the purpose of...
Phoebe Maltz Bovy is a contributing columnist for The Globe and Mail. Bluesky displayed on a cel phone with the app open on a computer monitor on...
If one were going by discourse, vibes, ink spilled, things of that nature, Donald Trump would have won the Jewish vote in the U.S. presidential...
In the before-times, a personal essay in a century-old women’s magazine about home-baked challah, in which the writer discusses how this ritual...
Media coverage of women 'decentering men' or 'going boysober' has been a constant since 2016. The year is no coincidence; this is about Donald Trump,...
Who would have thought that the decisive factor in the 2024 United States presidential election would be a squirrel? Yes, the October surprise came in...
What does “Jewish” look like? To even ask this question is to know the desired answer: there’s no such thing as looking Jewish, one is meant to...
Phoebe Maltz Bovy is a contributing columnist for The Globe and Mail. On Oct. 16, the social-media platform X, once (and still) known as Twitter,...
Nobody Wants This, a serialized Hallmark rom-com of a Netflix show, is what happens if you put Sex and the City, Annie Hall, early-aughts television...
Nobody Wants This, a serialized Hallmark rom-com of a Netflix show, is what happens if you put Sex and the City, Annie Hall, early-aughts television...
A year ago, I had a vivid nightmare about apocalyptic war. As someone who normally dreams about things like discovering a cheese shop I hadn’t known...
This piece originally appeared in the Fall 2024 edition of the quarterly magazine published by The Canadian Jewish News. Jews have always had our...
There is, as I mentioned on the most recent Bonjour Chai podcast, a meme I think about a lot: Guy who has only seen The Boss Baby, watching his...
From kindergarten through eighth grade, I attended a private all-girls school in New York City. But today, being 41 years old, with kids of my own in...
From the autumn into spring of 2016-17, a period in which the U.S. was adjusting to its 45th president—I ran the female-focused ‘Sisterhood’...
The name Dominique Pelicot has been all over the news, all over social media. The 72-year-old French woman’s husband spent a decade drugging her and...
For reasons that shall soon become clear, I keep thinking about the bananas article. Bananas in more than one sense. A recent New York Times op-ed,...
For reasons that shall soon become clear, I keep thinking about the bananas article. Bananas in more than one sense. A recent New York Times op-ed,...
Did you ever feel like everyone around you has their life together and you’re the one left behind? I don’t want to say that everyone’s had that...
A Paris outfit is almost cartoonish, which makes sense as its reference point is the famed costume designer Patricia Field-styled Netflix show Emily...
Yesterday I saw a woman in my Toronto neighbourhood wearing a Jews Against Genocide t-shirt. Normally I’d see this and start thinking about the...
If, without further context, I told you that there was a mission in the United States to get out the white-people vote, which party would you guess...
It’s difficult to say what a U.S. presidential election will mean for the Jewish people when the identity of the candidates is not only in flux, but...
Had July 13, 2024, been the slow-news day it first seemed, it would have been the moment to remember two greats whose deaths were announced on that...
As someone who’s had an eye on French Jewry for years, out of personal and professional interest, I’m familiar with the phenomenon of the...
This was my first Canada Day weekend as a Canadian citizen, one in which I was all set to spend this moment feeling disconnected from the political...
When I saw that there was an opinion piece in The Forward, making the case that it’s yeah maybe not the best idea to ban mask-wearing on the New...
As an expert (self-proclaimed) in the female heterosexual gaze, I took note of the trend of the “hot rodent man.” Does this mean you’re...
Whenever one speaks of the strides made towards LGBTQ acceptance, there is an asterisk needed, and I don’t mean the one that sometimes accompanies...
"Immediately terminate Pitt's chapter of Hillel" https://t.co/vaJebATe71 This weekend I went to my daughter’s dance recital at the Miles Nadal...
Let me state upfront that I don’t have the inside scoop on Joe Roberts’s whole deal. All I know is that the same man who wrote a syndicated Jewish...
Let me state upfront that I don’t have the inside scoop on Joe Roberts’s whole deal. All I know is that the same man who wrote a syndicated Jewish...
Phoebe Maltz Bovy is a contributing columnist for The Globe and Mail. In March, a Gallup poll of 12,000 Americans made the rounds with a startling...
This piece will also appear in the Summer 2024 issue of the quarterly magazine published by The Canadian Jewish News. In a 2022 National Review...
In 2011 or thereabouts, I was chatting with some people from various countries about, for some reason, the actress Natalie Portman. Someone said...