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Golden year: What I learned watching The Golden Girls for the first time in 2024

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Social Studies 2024: Phobe Maltz Bovy’s year in nine big vibe shifts

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...

24.12.2024 4

Canadian Jewish News

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Now it’s time to review the 75-writer anthology called ‘On Being Jewish Now’

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...

18.12.2024 2

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A pop-up photo gallery celebrating Shabbat transcends every fight over defining Zionism

For the past two weeks, in the course of discussing the 75-author anthology book On Being Jewish Now—and anti-antisemitic outreach more...

17.12.2024 2

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Does this book read as too parochial—or too ‘Zionist’? The pitfalls of Writing While Jewish

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...

12.12.2024 2

Canadian Jewish News

Phoebe Maltz Bovy

Now it’s time to review the 75-writer anthology called ‘On Being Jewish Now’

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...

12.12.2024 1

Canadian Jewish News

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The landslide that wasn’t: Jewish Americans remained loyal to Democrats—despite allies aligned against them

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...

09.12.2024 10

Canadian Jewish News

Phoebe Maltz Bovy

Does this book read as too parochial—or too ‘Zionist’? The pitfalls of Writing While Jewish

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...

09.12.2024 10

Canadian Jewish News

Phoebe Maltz Bovy

The landslide that wasn’t: Jewish Americans remained loyal to Democrats—despite allies aligned against them

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...

08.12.2024 10

Canadian Jewish News

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‘Challah for Ceasefire’?: Watching women’s media walk the political tightrope

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...

08.12.2024 10

Canadian Jewish News

Phoebe Maltz Bovy

Does this book read as too parochial—or too ‘Zionist’? The pitfalls of Writing While Jewish

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...

08.12.2024 10

Canadian Jewish News

Phoebe Maltz Bovy

Does this book read as too parochial—or too ‘Zionist’? The pitfalls of Writing While Jewish

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...

02.12.2024 10

Canadian Jewish News

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The problem with Bluesky: It won’t broaden our horizons

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...

22.11.2024 10

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The landslide that wasn’t: Phoebe Maltz Bovy on Jewish American loyalty to the Democrats—despite the allies aligned against them

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...

18.11.2024 10

Canadian Jewish News

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The ‘shiksa’ plot: Phoebe Maltz Bovy reviews ‘Nobody Wants This’

12.11.2024 8

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Ashkenormativity: Phoebe Maltz Bovy dives into how a decade of waves engulfed a Jewish word for ‘Whiteness’

12.11.2024 9

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The dead-squirrel election: Phoebe Maltz Bovy thinks there’s only one good outcome for Jewish voters in her native U.S.A.

12.11.2024 8

Canadian Jewish News

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‘Challah for Ceasefire’?: Phoebe Maltz Bovy on watching women’s media walk the political tightrope

12.11.2024 10

Canadian Jewish News

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‘Challah for Ceasefire’?: Phoebe Maltz Bovy on watching the political tightrope in women’s media

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...

11.11.2024 10

Canadian Jewish News

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No, you won’t boycott men. Nor should you

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,...

11.11.2024 10

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The dead-squirrel election: Phoebe Maltz Bovy thinks there’s only one good outcome for Jewish voters in her native U.S.A.

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...

04.11.2024 9

Canadian Jewish News

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Ashkenormativity: Phoebe Maltz Bovy dives into how a decade of waves engulfed a Jewish word for ‘Whiteness’

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...

29.10.2024 10

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X’s new block function will make people mad. That’s exactly what X wants

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,...

24.10.2024 20

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The ‘shiksa’ plot: Phoebe Maltz Bovy reviews ‘Nobody Wants This’

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...

14.10.2024 9

Canadian Jewish News

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The ‘shiksa’ plot: Phoebe Maltz Bovy reviews ‘Nobody Wants This’

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...

14.10.2024 4

Canadian Jewish News

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(Middle) East meets West (Toronto): Phoebe Maltz Bovy reflects on the new normal

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...

07.10.2024 10

Canadian Jewish News

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The New Philosemitism: An age-old tradition has taken new shape—but who is this helping?

This piece originally appeared in the Fall 2024 edition of the quarterly magazine published by The Canadian Jewish News. Jews have always had our...

06.10.2024 6

Canadian Jewish News

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Birthright Anti-Israel: Phoebe Maltz Bovy on the latest fashionable statements of Ta-Nehisi Coates

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...

30.09.2024 10

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Are children really protesting now? Phoebe Maltz Bovy on back-to-school culture wars

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...

23.09.2024 10

Canadian Jewish News

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Loomering large: Phoebe Maltz Bovy on Jews and fake news

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’...

16.09.2024 10

Canadian Jewish News

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An artist retrospective: Montreal-born Jill Ciment’s memoir asks ‘Me too?’ decades after the fact

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...

09.09.2024 10

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Of Jews, gentrifiers, and bananas: Phoebe Maltz Bovy on the antisemitic undercurrents to (some) degrowth

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,...

03.09.2024 5

Canadian Jewish News

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Of Jews, gentrifiers, and bananas: Phoebe Maltz Bovy on the antisemitic undercurrents to (some) degrowth

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,...

03.09.2024 7

Canadian Jewish News

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The biggest loser: Phoebe Maltz Bovy reviews a novel about a millennial Jewish woman’s malaise

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...

26.08.2024 10

Canadian Jewish News

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In defence of the Paris tourist outfit

A Paris outfit is almost cartoonish, which makes sense as its reference point is the famed costume designer Patricia Field-styled Netflix show Emily...

26.08.2024 10

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Do they have culture wars in Europe? Phoebe Maltz Bovy on savouring summer vacation

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...

19.08.2024 8

Canadian Jewish News

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Whites unite behind Kamala Harris: Phoebe Maltz Bovy on America’s newest gamble on identity politics

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...

29.07.2024 10

Canadian Jewish News

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Could there now be room for Josh Shapiro in the White House? Phoebe Maltz Bovy wonders if American presidential ticket tumult is good for the Jews

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...

22.07.2024 10

Canadian Jewish News

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RIP shtick: Phoebe Maltz Bovy remembers Dr. Ruth and Richard Simmons—and the 1980s sensibilities that defined their identities

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...

15.07.2024 10

Canadian Jewish News

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How 2020 explains 2024: Phoebe Maltz Bovy on antisemitism as settler-guilt-deflection as Palestine becomes part of politics everywhere

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...

08.07.2024 10

Canadian Jewish News

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Biden his time: Phoebe Maltz Bovy on watching the sorry state of U.S. politics from north of the border

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...

02.07.2024 10

Canadian Jewish News

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Omnicausus belli: Phoebe Maltz Bovy on the merging of all left-wing campaigns into something that’s been christened ‘The Omnicause’

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...

24.06.2024 10

Canadian Jewish News

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Ratted out: Phoebe Maltz Bovy on the end of feeling a need to ask if every contrived pop-culture trend is good for the Jews

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...

17.06.2024 4

Canadian Jewish News

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Gur meets girl: Phoebe Maltz Bovy reviews Sara Glass’s coming-of-age memoir ‘Kissing Girls on Shabbat’

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...

10.06.2024 7

Canadian Jewish News

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When the ‘Jewish third spaces’ we once took for granted require an extra layer of security protection: Phoebe Maltz Bovy on outreach in times of terror

"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...

03.06.2024 20

Canadian Jewish News

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Jews of convenience: Phoebe Maltz Bovy on the new identity gatekeeping in the aftermath of Oct. 7

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...

27.05.2024 30

Canadian Jewish News

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Jews of convenience: Phoebe Maltz Bovy on the new identity gatekeeping in the aftermath of Oct. 7

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...

27.05.2024 30

Canadian Jewish News

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‘Going both ways’: Young women are increasingly identifying as bisexual, but what does that mean?

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...

25.05.2024 60

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Nellie Bowles and Katherine Brodsky: Jewish women dangerously recap the cancellation era in new books reviewed by Phoebe Maltz Bovy

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...

21.05.2024 50

Canadian Jewish News

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Zionists in… the room with you right now? Phoebe Maltz Bovy on a new wave of blacklists targeting creative professionals who stand with Israel

In 2011 or thereabouts, I was chatting with some people from various countries about, for some reason, the actress Natalie Portman. Someone said...

13.05.2024 10

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