Phoebe Maltz Bovy
@phoebebovy.bsky.social
https://phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com
Writing a book about straight women for PRH Canada. Opinion ed., The Canadian Jewish News, and contributor columnist, The Globe and Mail. Half of Feminine Chaos, host of The Jewish Angle: thecjn.ca/angle
Writing a book about straight women for PRH Canada. Opinion ed., The Canadian Jewish News, and contributor columnist, The Globe and Mail. Half of Feminine Chaos, host of The Jewish Angle: thecjn.ca/angle
Pinned
'Nobody Wants This,' an awkwardly-timed infomercial for Judaism
There’s never any question of the obstacle to the love match being antisemitic opposition from Joanne’s family and friends. There’s no mention of BDS and whether it necessitates boycotting the hot rab...
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Covering all the important issues of the day (but actually, kind of) thecjn.ca/arts-culture...
'Nobody Wants This,' an awkwardly-timed infomercial for Judaism
There’s never any question of the obstacle to the love match being antisemitic opposition from Joanne’s family and friends. There’s no mention of BDS and whether it necessitates boycotting the hot rab...
thecjn.ca
November 11, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Covering all the important issues of the day (but actually, kind of) thecjn.ca/arts-culture...
Reposted by Phoebe Maltz Bovy
I believe the most significant culinary development to date is ajitsuke tamago — salty soft boiled eggs that you just leave in your fridge for breakfast every morning or eat standing up over the sink at 3 AM
www.justonecookbook.com/ramen-egg/#r...
www.justonecookbook.com/ramen-egg/#r...
Ramen Eggs (Ajitsuke Tamago) (Video) 味付け玉子
Known as Ajitsuke Tamago (Ajitama) in Japan, Ramen Eggs are delicious as a ramen topping, in bento, or as a snack. Easy 5-ingredient recipe!
www.justonecookbook.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:09 PM
I believe the most significant culinary development to date is ajitsuke tamago — salty soft boiled eggs that you just leave in your fridge for breakfast every morning or eat standing up over the sink at 3 AM
www.justonecookbook.com/ramen-egg/#r...
www.justonecookbook.com/ramen-egg/#r...
SO DO I. This was bad when it was 'why don't we have authors from certain minority groups only write sob stories' and it's bad when it's 'so, you're Jewish, not Israeli but same thing right? where's your novel of apology?'
I dislike the idea that people have special duties of any kind based on their ethnicity/heritage/etc.
November 10, 2025 at 7:47 PM
SO DO I. This was bad when it was 'why don't we have authors from certain minority groups only write sob stories' and it's bad when it's 'so, you're Jewish, not Israeli but same thing right? where's your novel of apology?'
In the wake of USAID cuts killing hundreds of thousands, of a US-led end of liberal democracy, will American writers self-flagellate instead of going about their lives?
The subhed on the article here is making my blood pressure rise. Will I read the essay? Stay tuned...
The novel has been a medium through which many Jewish Americans work through questions of identity and morality. To understand how Jewish writers have addressed their ever-changing relationship to power, writer Andrew Ridker revisited a century of literature.
November 10, 2025 at 2:10 PM
In the wake of USAID cuts killing hundreds of thousands, of a US-led end of liberal democracy, will American writers self-flagellate instead of going about their lives?
Reposted by Phoebe Maltz Bovy
The subhed on the article here is making my blood pressure rise. Will I read the essay? Stay tuned...
The novel has been a medium through which many Jewish Americans work through questions of identity and morality. To understand how Jewish writers have addressed their ever-changing relationship to power, writer Andrew Ridker revisited a century of literature.
A New Jewish Plotline
In the wake of Gaza, should Jewish American writers be tackling different stories?
www.vulture.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:03 PM
The subhed on the article here is making my blood pressure rise. Will I read the essay? Stay tuned...
Meanwhile in Canada.
November 9, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Meanwhile in Canada.
Reposted by Phoebe Maltz Bovy
On screens in kids' museums, parenting discourse, and the pure continuous joy that is thinking what to serve one's family for meals. phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com/p/complaints...
November 9, 2025 at 2:54 AM
On screens in kids' museums, parenting discourse, and the pure continuous joy that is thinking what to serve one's family for meals. phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com/p/complaints...
Reposted by Phoebe Maltz Bovy
across all wikipedias in all languages, vietnamese wikipedia's "game boy" article is the only place that uses the public domain shots of hillary clinton as a tetris addict taken on air force one
November 9, 2025 at 3:02 AM
across all wikipedias in all languages, vietnamese wikipedia's "game boy" article is the only place that uses the public domain shots of hillary clinton as a tetris addict taken on air force one
On screens in kids' museums, parenting discourse, and the pure continuous joy that is thinking what to serve one's family for meals. phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com/p/complaints...
November 9, 2025 at 2:54 AM
On screens in kids' museums, parenting discourse, and the pure continuous joy that is thinking what to serve one's family for meals. phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com/p/complaints...
Reposted by Phoebe Maltz Bovy
Professor David Schraub’s forthcoming book, "Deliberation, Dismissal, and Democracy," challenges readers to confront society’s tendency to brush off hard thoughts.
Published by Oxford University Press, it’s out now and available to order.
🔗 Read more and order a copy here!
@schraubd.bsky.social
Published by Oxford University Press, it’s out now and available to order.
🔗 Read more and order a copy here!
@schraubd.bsky.social
Professor Explores Confronting “Hard Thoughts” in New Book
Professor David Schraub’s forthcoming book, Deliberation, Dismissal, and Democracy, invites readers to confront society’s tendency to dismiss challeng...
law.lclark.edu
November 7, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Professor David Schraub’s forthcoming book, "Deliberation, Dismissal, and Democracy," challenges readers to confront society’s tendency to brush off hard thoughts.
Published by Oxford University Press, it’s out now and available to order.
🔗 Read more and order a copy here!
@schraubd.bsky.social
Published by Oxford University Press, it’s out now and available to order.
🔗 Read more and order a copy here!
@schraubd.bsky.social
Realizing that my memory of Reese's Pieces (a delicacy!) is not squaring with my middle-aged revisiting via excess Halloween candy (borderline vile)
November 7, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Realizing that my memory of Reese's Pieces (a delicacy!) is not squaring with my middle-aged revisiting via excess Halloween candy (borderline vile)
Reposted by Phoebe Maltz Bovy
If 'the fight against antisemitism' stops being right-coded, everything shifts. Things might turn towards a left-right horseshoe-style consensus about hating Jews. Or they might polarize into it being especially unchic *on the left* to be an antisemite.
November 7, 2025 at 5:33 PM
If 'the fight against antisemitism' stops being right-coded, everything shifts. Things might turn towards a left-right horseshoe-style consensus about hating Jews. Or they might polarize into it being especially unchic *on the left* to be an antisemite.
Will reup this one until it's sorted out!
Something I've seen no one else yet address, but will be addressing further: if the GOP has made 'fighting antisemitism' its pretext, its cudgel, its shorthand for antiwoke, what happens if/now that the groypers are welcomed?
November 7, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Will reup this one until it's sorted out!
So Christian Zionism: not new and not esp. MAGA. The MAGA anti-anti-Israel thing is its own thing, rooted in secular anti-wokeism, not that there's no crossover!
It's not really fighting antisemitism, it's curtailing criticism of Israel. The evangelicals supporting Trump are antisemites.
November 7, 2025 at 3:53 PM
So Christian Zionism: not new and not esp. MAGA. The MAGA anti-anti-Israel thing is its own thing, rooted in secular anti-wokeism, not that there's no crossover!
To yes-and: short attention span politics.
The death of Kirk seems to be the fracture line. No more talk about fighting antisemitism afterward, plus w the ceasefire.
Could be generational, like in Democrats. Trump represents the pre-Millennial philosemitism, while now Vance is fine with the groypers.
Could be generational, like in Democrats. Trump represents the pre-Millennial philosemitism, while now Vance is fine with the groypers.
November 7, 2025 at 2:06 PM
To yes-and: short attention span politics.
Something I've seen no one else yet address, but will be addressing further: if the GOP has made 'fighting antisemitism' its pretext, its cudgel, its shorthand for antiwoke, what happens if/now that the groypers are welcomed?
November 7, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Something I've seen no one else yet address, but will be addressing further: if the GOP has made 'fighting antisemitism' its pretext, its cudgel, its shorthand for antiwoke, what happens if/now that the groypers are welcomed?
Reposted by Phoebe Maltz Bovy
I would have voted for Mamdani but I do have some misgivings, well highlighted here. Excellent piece👇
I waded into the Mamdani discourse, against my better judgement:
joshyunis.substack.com/p/the-mamdan...
joshyunis.substack.com/p/the-mamdan...
The Mamdani Sting
Learning to see Jewish pain when you need Jewish votes is better than nothing – just don’t confuse it for leadership
joshyunis.substack.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:22 PM
I would have voted for Mamdani but I do have some misgivings, well highlighted here. Excellent piece👇
It wasn't "women" it was me, personally. Sorry about that!
November 6, 2025 at 2:12 PM
It wasn't "women" it was me, personally. Sorry about that!
Of all the Trump Show plotlines, 'he made the White House look tacky' and variants thereof I find the least compelling. (see also: phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com/p/those-in-w...)
Those in white houses
Form over function mishaps
phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Of all the Trump Show plotlines, 'he made the White House look tacky' and variants thereof I find the least compelling. (see also: phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com/p/those-in-w...)
Reposted by Phoebe Maltz Bovy
The proper lens thru which to view NY Jewish cross-generational tensions is the Florida episode of Broad City
November 5, 2025 at 6:50 PM
The proper lens thru which to view NY Jewish cross-generational tensions is the Florida episode of Broad City
Very much so, and a point I tried to get at in my pre-election column! thecjn.ca/opinion/zohr...
November 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Very much so, and a point I tried to get at in my pre-election column! thecjn.ca/opinion/zohr...
Three things can all be true of (young) women voters in the aggregate: 1) concerned with policies generally 2) put off by sex pest candidates and 3) aware of the unusual handsomeness and nice smile of a non-sex-pest candidate.
November 5, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Three things can all be true of (young) women voters in the aggregate: 1) concerned with policies generally 2) put off by sex pest candidates and 3) aware of the unusual handsomeness and nice smile of a non-sex-pest candidate.