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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....
Jewish professors are fleeing America for Canada. Wait, let me start over. Three American professors are departing one elite North American university...
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...
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...
The successfully performative cultural commentator Emily Gould recently announced that she has decided to stop being mad at Lena Dunham. If you would...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The successfully performative cultural commentator Emily Gould recently announced that she has decided to stop being mad at Lena Dunham. If you would...
A recent open letter initiated by the Union for Reform Judaism, the Jewish Council for Public Affairs and the National Council of Jewish...
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...
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...
Of the three middle-aged Fletcher siblings whose perspectives are told in Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s extremely funny-yet-serious second novel—which...
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...
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...
The Golden Girls’ four leads, from left to right, Sophia (Estelle Getty), Blanche (Rue McClanahan), Rose (Betty White) and Dorothy (Bea Arthur) are...
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 generally—I...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
Who would have thought that the decisive factor in the 2024 United States presidential election would be a squirrel? Yes, the October surprise came...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...