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From ‘never again’ to ‘never mind’

It’s an inside joke of sorts in Jewish communal media that two types of people research whether each famous person is Jewish: antisemites, and...

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Phoebe Maltz Bovy

Are free buses ‘woke’?

The big-picture question that animates this column and my podcast The Jewish Angle is about the relationship between the progressive ideology of the...

10.09.2025 3

Phoebe Maltz Bovy

Not that kind of nebbish: a review of new Lena Dunham Netflix series ‘Too Much’

There is a standard way of writing about Lena Dunham. A kind of expected throat-clearing, in which it is solemnly acknowledged that the ur-millennial...

02.09.2025 1

Phoebe Maltz Bovy

Leigh Stein novel ‘If You’re Seeing This, It’s Meant for You’: the trials of the very-young and very-online

“She was working in a bridal shop in Flushing, Queens, till her boyfriend kicked her out in one of those crushing scenes.” So begins the theme...

26.08.2025 4

Phoebe Maltz Bovy

Busting out the nativism? A jeans ad marks the end of the 2010s

There’s an image that, for me, encapsulates the 2010s. It’s a 2017 New York City billboard for the millennial-pink beauty brand Glossier, itself...

19.08.2025 3

Phoebe Maltz Bovy

Too much, too early: how the Oct. 8 ‘peace’ movement silenced Jewish moderates

Whatever you view as the source or sources of the problem, it seems clear enough that Gaza is a mess. A tragedy for Gazans, a humanitarian crisis...

05.08.2025 10

Phoebe Maltz Bovy

Pretty-dress politics: the strange ideological trajectory of a frilly garment

Someone who may or may not be my mother sent me a Washington Post story by Rachel Tashjian: “Is a floral dress a political statement?” It’s the...

29.07.2025 6

Phoebe Maltz Bovy

MAGA antisemites and MAGA philosemites are fighting

The Trump inner circle cannot all get along. The Trump administration is undergoing some kind of riftapalooza at the moment. First there was the...

22.07.2025 7

Phoebe Maltz Bovy

Shots fired: the pride and plight of the ‘Jewish-owned restaurant’

Like perhaps everyone apart from the shooter, I don’t know the reason why, on Canada Day, someone shot a gun into Mimi Chinese, a restaurant in the...

15.07.2025 3

Phoebe Maltz Bovy

The art monster’s daughter: Molly Jong-Fast’s new memoir pans Erica Jong’s parenting

Summer—even in Toronto—feels like beach-reading season, so I decided to set whither-liberal-democracy aside for one column, in favour of reviewing...

08.07.2025 7

Phoebe Maltz Bovy

When did society lose its love for children in public spaces?

04.07.2025 10

Phoebe Maltz Bovy

Making sense of what Mamdani’s primary win says about today’s New York

When I saw that my Bluesky feed was smitten with a New York City mayoral candidate, a state assemblyman named Zohran Mamdani, I thought a few things....

02.07.2025 3

Phoebe Maltz Bovy

Criticizing Israel in order to defend it

There’s a passage from a May 25 Michelle Goldberg New York Times op-ed I have not been able to stop thinking about. It’s about “what [Elon]...

24.06.2025 4

Phoebe Maltz Bovy

The problematic present: Emily Nussbaum revisits the rise and fall of the original ‘The Goldbergs’

‘You couldn’t make a show like that today.’ This refrain was the subtext or text of countless headlines and think-pieces from 2010ish up to the...

18.06.2025 4

Phoebe Maltz Bovy

Somewhere near Boston: Is (destroying) Harvard good for the Jews?

I did not go to Harvard. This has never been an aim of mine. I never applied to it, never gave it a chance to reject me, not for college or grad...

10.06.2025 5

Phoebe Maltz Bovy

Is Jewish dieting culture over? Reading ‘This is Big’ in the age of Ozempic

There’s a meme of sorts about how people from all cultural backgrounds claim that what makes their own unique is its love of food. As versus which...

27.05.2025 5

Phoebe Maltz Bovy

Setting Trump aside for a busman’s-holiday Britcom

Did you ever have all your prior assumptions confirmed in one go? That would be the best way I could describe where things are at on my various...

22.05.2025 7

Phoebe Maltz Bovy

An exception to the rule: Barry Diller and Diane von Fürstenberg’s Jewish love story with a twist

For convergence-of-interest reasons, the moment I knew there was an excerpt of Barry Diller’s memoir, Who Knew, available at New York Magazine...

13.05.2025 3

Phoebe Maltz Bovy

Snowbirds or refugees? Notes on a two-way migration

Jewish history’s big turning points often start with expulsions. Mass movements of our kind tend to be precipitated by some higher power being like,...

10.05.2025 7

Phoebe Maltz Bovy

What it feels like to feel like Canada’s last remaining Jewish Liberal

Phoebe Maltz Bovy hosts The Jewish Angle for The CJN Podcasts—with new episodes each Tuesday. One thing about immigration is that you can have...

29.04.2025 6

Phoebe Maltz Bovy

Passover attack on a governor’s mansion defied the narrative surrounding Trump’s America

The Jewish Angle with Phoebe Maltz Bovy premieres this week—a conversation with The Forward columnist and Bad Jews ...

22.04.2025 5

Phoebe Maltz Bovy

Phoebe Maltz Bovy is probing ‘The Jewish Angle’ for her upcoming weekly podcast series

As I type this, I have four tabs open on my computer to articles by Jewish American thinkers, ones by no means a monolith politically, but each one...

16.04.2025 3

Phoebe Maltz Bovy

A bad job: Facebook’s ‘Careless People’ meet their match in a new tell-all book

It is not of memoir-worthy earth-shatteringness to have had a crummy job. Even those of us who’ve been lucky professionally had duds along the way....

08.04.2025 4

Phoebe Maltz Bovy

From Canada-washing to isolationism, there are challenges in ‘Buy Canadian’

03.04.2025 10

Phoebe Maltz Bovy

Fighting fascism with a three-professor brain drain from Yale to Toronto

Jewish professors are fleeing America for Canada. Wait, let me start over. Three American professors are departing one elite North American university...

01.04.2025 6

Phoebe Maltz Bovy

What a Jewish woman can recognize in Donald Trump’s pretext playbook coming after her kind

Donald Trump—yes, I’m aware this is a column for a Canadian publication—has been in office this second time around just long enough that I think...

19.03.2025 6

Phoebe Maltz Bovy

What a Jewish woman can recognize in Donald Trump’s pretext playbook coming after her kind

Donald Trump—yes, I’m aware this is a column for a Canadian publication—has been in office this second time around just long enough that I think...

13.03.2025 8

Phoebe Maltz Bovy

Does wokeness explain nothing or everything? The answer requires cringing at what online discourse used to be

The successfully performative cultural commentator Emily Gould recently announced that she has decided to stop being mad at Lena Dunham. If you would...

12.03.2025 4

Phoebe Maltz Bovy

What does ‘The Man Repeller’ mean in 2025? Let’s examine the rise, fall and return of Leandra Medine Cohen

Are women done with men? Some are, I suppose—and some were never interested in them to begin with—but on the whole, no, women aren’t quite...

12.03.2025 6

Phoebe Maltz Bovy

The scrolling of Lizzy Savetsky: How the Jewish version of a tradwife ends up endorsing the views of Meir Kahane

There is a woman on the internet known to foment envy and righteous fury in other women, at levels few can achieve. Hannah Neeleman, proprieteress of...

12.03.2025 4

Phoebe Maltz Bovy

What is a woman? An obsession with defining women has become a distraction from fighting for us

08.03.2025 8

Phoebe Maltz Bovy

The scrolling of Lizzy Savetsky: How the Jewish version of a tradwife ends up endorsing the views of Meir Kahane

There is a woman on the internet known to foment envy and righteous fury in other women, at levels few can achieve. Hannah Neeleman, proprieteress of...

05.03.2025 4

Phoebe Maltz Bovy

What does ‘The Man Repeller’ mean to 2025? Let’s examine the rise, fall and return of Leandra Medine Cohen

Are women done with men? Some are, I suppose—and some were never interested in them to begin with—but on the whole, no, women aren’t quite...

26.02.2025 4

Phoebe Maltz Bovy

Does wokeness explain nothing or everything? The answer requires cringing at what online discourse used to be

The successfully performative cultural commentator Emily Gould recently announced that she has decided to stop being mad at Lena Dunham. If you would...

20.02.2025 10

Phoebe Maltz Bovy

Reform vs. reform: Will the disappearance of DEI programs be better or worse for the Jewish people?

A recent open letter initiated by the Union for Reform Judaism, the Jewish Council for Public Affairs and the National Council of Jewish...

12.02.2025 7

Phoebe Maltz Bovy

Feeling haunted by tariff talk? Take comfort in how Great Britain was once soothed by a bubbe’s ghost

These are strange times, but that much weirder if you happen to be a dual citizen of Canada and the United States. In one sense, it ought to mean...

05.02.2025 10

Phoebe Maltz Bovy

Put your hand up if you still think Elon Musk did a Nazi salute a week ago in Washington

My late poodle used to do this thing with her arms. I say arms, knowing that dogs don’t have arms, just front legs, and I say she, knowing that...

28.01.2025 10

Phoebe Maltz Bovy

The safety question: Jewish existential dilemmas in Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s hilarious ‘Long Island Compromise’

Of the three middle-aged Fletcher siblings whose perspectives are told in Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s extremely funny-yet-serious second novel—which...

22.01.2025 6

Phoebe Maltz Bovy

Glazed over: 2010s vibes abound in Ilana Glazer’s made-in-Toronto comedy special ‘Human Magic’

Ali Wong released her first Netflix comedy special in 2016 to wide acclaim—at least from all the places a Netflix comedy special would be courting...

15.01.2025 8

Phoebe Maltz Bovy

New York was always a lot more Jewish than Toronto could ever be—but the contrast is glaring now

It’s a commonplace experience of a Diaspora Jew visiting Israel to realize that suddenly, this thing that made you different is actually the least...

07.01.2025 6

Phoebe Maltz Bovy

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

The Golden Girls’ four leads, from left to right, Sophia (Estelle Getty), Blanche (Rue McClanahan), Rose (Betty White) and Dorothy (Bea Arthur) are...

27.12.2024 4

Phoebe Maltz Bovy

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 3

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...

18.12.2024 3

Phoebe Maltz Bovy

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 generally—I...

17.12.2024 4

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...

12.12.2024 4

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 4

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...

09.12.2024 4

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 3

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 3

Phoebe Maltz Bovy

‘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 4

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