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Phoebe Maltz BovyThe Globe and Mail |
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:...
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’...
Remember Guernica? The highfalutin, U.S.-based, volunteer-run literary magazine that published then unpublished an essay by an Israeli writer,...
“Could I really write about a Jewish restaurant given the current political turmoil?” So went the thought process of Guardian restaurant critic...
Rabbi Tzvi Kushlevsky, 88, of Jerusalem, recently had his first baby. I say “had” but it certainly wasn’t Kushlevsky doing the childbearing...
In Canada: • anti-Semitic cartoon makes international news • Parliament votes to give Hamas symbolic victory • Jewish film festival is...
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...
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...
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...
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...
So explain, respectively, the official description of First Jew in Canada: A Trans Tale, a live theatrical performance slated for March 31 at the...
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...
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...
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...
Phoebe Maltz Bovy is a contributing columnist for The Globe and Mail. The time-honoured tradition – or hardwired near-universal reality – of men...
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...
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...
The Toronto Rape Crisis Centre has said nothing about the horrific sexual violence committed by Hamas. Nothing about the rape of Israeli women being...
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...
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...
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...
“Born Bettye Naomi Goldstein on February 4, 1921 in Peoria, Illinois, both of her parents were immigrants. Her Russian father Harry worked as a...
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...
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...
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...
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...
“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...
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...
Why, some are asking, has the left—known for its consistently outspoken stance about violence against women (she types, suppressing the lol, and not...
Throughout my neighbourhood, signs for ceasefire rallies have been covered up. Not by pro-Israel messaging but by flyers that say, “Save Ontario...
A young woman named Morgan Raum engaged in “peak Jewish” behaviour, per one commentator, by attending the Washington rally for Israel holding a...
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...
The literary magazine n 1 published an open letter from “Jewish writers, artists, and activists who wish to disavow the widespread narrative that...
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...
Last week, a TikTok account made the rounds, featuring, as it does, an attractive young woman saying something many found, well, attractive. ...
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...
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...
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....
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...
As a rule, I do not have very interesting dreams. They tend to involve ordinary-enough things (grocery-shopping, etc.) happening in some...
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...
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...
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...