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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....

yesterday 3

Canadian Jewish News

Phoebe Maltz Bovy

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

03.04.2025 10

The Globe and Mail

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 4

Canadian Jewish News

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

Canadian Jewish News

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

Canadian Jewish News

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 3

Canadian Jewish News

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

Canadian Jewish News

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 3

Canadian Jewish News

Phoebe Maltz Bovy

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

08.03.2025 8

The Globe and Mail

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

Canadian Jewish News

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

Canadian Jewish News

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

Canadian Jewish News

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

Canadian Jewish News

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

Canadian Jewish News

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

Canadian Jewish News

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

Canadian Jewish News

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

Canadian Jewish News

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 3

Canadian Jewish News

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

The Globe and Mail

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

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...

18.12.2024 3

Canadian Jewish News

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

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...

12.12.2024 4

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 4

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...

09.12.2024 3

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 3

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 3

Canadian Jewish News

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 3

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 4

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

Phoebe Maltz Bovy

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

The Globe and Mail

Phoebe Maltz Bovy

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 7

Canadian Jewish News

Phoebe Maltz Bovy

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...

12.11.2024 3

Canadian Jewish News

Phoebe Maltz Bovy

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...

12.11.2024 2

Canadian Jewish News

Phoebe Maltz Bovy

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...

12.11.2024 2

Canadian Jewish News

Phoebe Maltz Bovy

‘Challah for Ceasefire’?: Phoebe Maltz Bovy on 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...

12.11.2024 4

Canadian Jewish News

Phoebe Maltz Bovy

‘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 6

Canadian Jewish News

Phoebe Maltz Bovy

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...

11.11.2024 3

The Globe and Mail

Phoebe Maltz Bovy

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...

04.11.2024 1

Canadian Jewish News

Phoebe Maltz Bovy

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 4

Canadian Jewish News

Phoebe Maltz Bovy

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 10

The Globe and Mail

Phoebe Maltz Bovy

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...

14.10.2024 3

Canadian Jewish News

Phoebe Maltz Bovy

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...

14.10.2024 2

Canadian Jewish News

Phoebe Maltz Bovy

(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...

07.10.2024 3

Canadian Jewish News

Phoebe Maltz Bovy

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 3

Canadian Jewish News

Phoebe Maltz Bovy

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 3

Canadian Jewish News

Phoebe Maltz Bovy

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...

23.09.2024 3

Canadian Jewish News

Phoebe Maltz Bovy

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 3

Canadian Jewish News

Phoebe Maltz Bovy

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...

09.09.2024 3

Canadian Jewish News

Phoebe Maltz Bovy

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 3

Canadian Jewish News

Phoebe Maltz Bovy