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Looking at those kids on the lawn: Phoebe Maltz Bovy on the new ‘youth’ movement on display in campus protests across North America

The young people are having a party and we’re not invited. You can read all about it in a recent New York Times story, “It’s Not Just Gaza:...

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Next year in… ? Phoebe Maltz Bovy on the globalization of antisemitism reflected in pre-Passover protest scenes

Would you believe it, we are in for yet another round of yes there’s a lot of antisemitism these days but how can you care about Jews’...

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The 100 years’ ‘Guernica’: Phoebe Maltz Bovy with the latest updates on an antizionist literary implosion

Remember Guernica? The highfalutin, U.S.-based, volunteer-run literary magazine that published then unpublished an essay by an Israeli writer,...

15.04.2024 8

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Act British, eat Yiddish? Phoebe Maltz Bovy defends eating deli food regardless of what Netanyahu’s up to

“Could I really write about a Jewish restaurant given the current political turmoil?” So went the thought process of Guardian restaurant critic...

08.04.2024 10

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The case for marrying Abraham? Phoebe Maltz Bovy on the new wave of post-feminist personal essays

Rabbi Tzvi Kushlevsky, 88, of Jerusalem, recently had his first baby. I say “had” but it certainly wasn’t Kushlevsky doing the childbearing...

01.04.2024 10

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How antisemitic is Canada really? A perspective from newish Jewish citizen Pheobe Maltz Bovy

In Canada: • anti-Semitic cartoon makes international news • Parliament votes to give Hamas symbolic victory • Jewish film festival is...

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An elusive prince and missing princess inspires a Jewish history lesson: Phoebe Maltz Bovy on the Iraqi-Indian backstory to the royal gossip of the moment

In this week’s column, I will take on an intractable problem. The Middle East? No. Antisemitism at home? Nope, try again. The questions on my mind...

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When a magazine makes a ‘fulsome’ apology for doing a Zionism: Phoebe Maltz Bovy on a craven literary retraction

This week I was all set to write my weekly opinion column about Orthodox women in Brooklyn (if not beyond) going on a sex strike in protest of Malky...

11.03.2024 8

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Cultural antisemitism only encourages pro-Israel sentiment: Phoebe Maltz Bovy on the foolishness of hassling Diaspora Jews ‘for Palestine’

My local café—the place I chat with fellow public-elementary-school parents after drop-off, where I buy coffee beans, and indeed where I have...

04.03.2024 10

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Can polyamory save this marriage? Phoebe Maltz Bovy reviews the book ‘More’ by Molly Roden Winter

This piece will also appear in the Spring 2024 print magazine from The Canadian Jewish News. You can also hear Phoebe Maltz Bovy and Avi Finegold talk...

01.03.2024 6

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‘An ancestor you never knew you had’: Phoebe Maltz Bovy on the complicated legacy of a real-life Canadian answer to Yentl the Yeshiva Boy

So explain, respectively, the official description of First Jew in Canada: A Trans Tale, a live theatrical performance slated for March 31 at the...

26.02.2024 8

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On being a ‘garbage human being’: Phoebe Maltz Bovy checks in on the state of antisemitism discourse in February 2024

Two articles crossed my path last week, and I’ve been thinking of them in conjunction with each other. Not because they are the same sort of article...

20.02.2024 6

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Triggered by houndstooth: Phoebe Maltz Bovy on keffiyehs and the reactions they inspire

I have read (and doubtless written) a lot of nonsense in my day, but nothing has ever quite reached the level of Dave Zirin’s hot take at The Nation...

12.02.2024 6

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Trigged by houndstooth: Phoebe Maltz Bovy on keffiyehs and the reactions they inspire

I have read (and doubtless written) a lot of nonsense in my day, but nothing has ever quite reached the level of Dave Zirin’s hot take at The Nation...

12.02.2024 5

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Bridging the gendered political divide not for marriage, but for love

Phoebe Maltz Bovy is a contributing columnist for The Globe and Mail. The time-honoured tradition – or hardwired near-universal reality – of men...

08.02.2024 10

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Jewish refugees ~from~ Canada? Phoebe Maltz Bovy on the limits of legitimate antisemitism concerns amidst the comeback of Donald Trump

I moved to Canada from the United States in 2015. Given that most people I meet know me to be a new arrival but aren’t thinking about exactly when...

05.02.2024 5

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Jewish refugees ~from~ Canada? Phoebe Maltz Bovy on the limits of legitimate antisemitism concerns

I moved to Canada from the United States in 2015. Given that most people I meet know me to be a new arrival but aren’t thinking about exactly when...

05.02.2024 6

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When rape crisis centres drape themselves in (metaphorical) keffiyehs: Phoebe Maltz Bovy on the broken woke-liberal alliance

The Toronto Rape Crisis Centre has said nothing about the horrific sexual violence committed by Hamas. Nothing about the rape of Israeli women being...

29.01.2024 40

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Fiddler on the Nakba: Phoebe Maltz Bovy examines the strange new wave of Jewish anti-nationalism

22.01.2024 10

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A Jewish neighbourhood without Jews: Phoebe Maltz Bovy considers ‘Only Murders in the Building’

I’ve almost finished watching the 2021 first season of mystery-comedy Only Murders in the Building (which is also currently airing the old-fashioned...

15.01.2024 9

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Who said it first? Phoebe Maltz Bovy on how the plagiarism gossip cycle has made a main character out of Neri Oxman

I had originally wanted to headline this column “The Oxman Cometh.” But then I did a search for this phrase, and saw that someone had used it...

08.01.2024 5

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Is nothing good enough? Phoebe Maltz Bovy on why some progressives are mad at the young Israeli refusing to serve in the IDF

Tal Mitnick, an 18-year-old Israeli, has gone to jail for refusing to serve in the Israel Defence Forces due to his opposition to Israel’s war in...

04.01.2024 6

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Euphemistic Russio-Hungarians: Phoebe Maltz Bovy on the old roots of Gen Z confusion about Jewish identity

“Born Bettye Naomi Goldstein on February 4, 1921 in Peoria, Illinois, both of her parents were immigrants. Her Russian father Harry worked as a...

28.12.2023 4

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Toys will be toys: In defence of the tiny bits of plastic

Phoebe Maltz Bovy is a contributing columnist for The Globe and Mail. It’s tough out there for toy-sellers. Mastermind Toys, a Canadian company...

22.12.2023 6

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The mysterious sign-annotator of Roncesvalles: Phoebe Maltz Bovy on daily life in a not-very-Jewish part of Toronto

Roncesvalles, where I have lived since 2020, is a historically Polish neighbourhood in the west of Toronto. It’s still somewhat Polish, going by a...

18.12.2023 5

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Have gifts for teachers gone too far?

Phoebe Maltz Bovy is a contributing columnist for The Globe and Mail. It has recently been brought to my attention that some parents in Toronto are...

15.12.2023 10

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Jews don’t count, but do we want to? Phoebe Maltz Bovy on why the Ivy League antisemitism hearings (sort of) matter

Someone clue me in: What’s a “Harvard”? There is but one university in North America that anyone cares about, to the point that if someone at...

11.12.2023 8

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Put up a menorah! Phoebe Maltz Bovy on the apparent ‘hasbarist undertones’ of existing while Jewish

“Menorahs mean more this Hanukkah amid rising antisemitism: ‘The fear is real'” So reads a USA Today headline from Dec. 18, 2022. Or you can go...

04.12.2023 9

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Radical chic has become the look of the moment

Phoebe Maltz Bovy is a contributing columnist for The Globe and Mail. Fashion trends were supposed to be over, a casualty of the pandemic that no one...

01.12.2023 6

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Why is there no #MeToo for the victims of Hamas? Phoebe Maltz Bovy on the unsurprising silence of progressives

Why, some are asking, has the left—known for its consistently outspoken stance about violence against women (she types, suppressing the lol, and not...

27.11.2023 6

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Age of ignorance: Phoebe Maltz Bovy on the connection between library-less-ness and disinformation

Throughout my neighbourhood, signs for ceasefire rallies have been covered up. Not by pro-Israel messaging but by flyers that say, “Save Ontario...

20.11.2023 9

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Eating and dating for the Jews: Phoebe Maltz Bovy on the blurry lifestyle-politics divide

A young woman named Morgan Raum engaged in “peak Jewish” behaviour, per one commentator, by attending the Washington rally for Israel holding a...

16.11.2023 4

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But it is, in fact, complicated: Phoebe Maltz Bovy on the empty promise of moral certitude

I can say with certainty that civilians should never be killed in a war. I can say this times a million regarding anything bad happening to a baby. I...

13.11.2023 4

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The perfect crime: Phoebe Maltz Bovy on the elusive ‘purely’ antisemitic act

The literary magazine n 1 published an open letter from “Jewish writers, artists, and activists who wish to disavow the widespread narrative that...

06.11.2023 6

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Who’s afraid of the big bad Wolf? Phoebe Maltz Bovy on Naomi Klein’s book ‘Doppelganger’

It’s hard to picture anything more humiliating than working on a project for nearly a decade only to learn, during a live radio interview, that...

01.11.2023 6

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‘My Jewish friends aren’t standing with Israel’: Phoebe Maltz Bovy on the convenient symbolism of the anti-Zionist Jew

Last week, a TikTok account made the rounds, featuring, as it does, an attractive young woman saying something many found, well, attractive. ...

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Halloween, you’re cancelled

Phoebe Maltz Bovy is a contributing columnist for The Globe and Mail. If you peruse family photo albums from 10 or more years ago, you have to brace...

28.10.2023 5

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Do you want to be an ally in these times? Let the world think you’re Jewish

There’s a 1972 episode of the Mary Tyler Moore Show that addressed antisemitism. Mary makes a new friend who turns out to be a big ol’ hater of...

23.10.2023 7

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Settle for what? Phoebe Maltz Bovy on a Jewish existential dilemma

Where, on planet Earth, would a Jew not be considered a settler? This is a serious question, one to which I have yet to get a satisfactory response....

16.10.2023 3

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If you can’t say anything reasonable, say nothing at all

Phoebe Maltz Bovy is a contributing columnist for The Globe and Mail. Ever since war broke out in Israel and Gaza, there has been – alongside...

12.10.2023 5

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It is actually fine to care when Jews are killed: Phoebe Maltz Bovy on tepid responses to terror

As a rule, I do not have very interesting dreams. They tend to involve ordinary-enough things (grocery-shopping, etc.) happening in some...

10.10.2023 6

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You oughta know (but do you?): Phoebe Maltz Bovy reminds that the Second World War is a thing that happened

Honestly, the whole thing is a bit unfair. I have barely been Canadian for five minutes and now I need to figure out what exactly is going on in the...

02.10.2023 5

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New year, new citizenship: Phoebe Maltz Bovy on becoming Canadian on the cusp of Rosh Hashanah

After my Canadian citizenship oath ceremony on Wednesday of last week, a fellow new Canadian, a woman maybe in her 60s, told me that this was the...

18.09.2023 5

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Shakshuka-gate: Phoebe Maltz Bovy on a single 29-year-old woman’s Israeli breakfast gone viral

Ages ago in internet time, when I was researching privilege call-outs for a book published in 2017, I noticed something curious: the people who get...

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