Phoebe Maltz Bovy is a former editor of the Sisterhood blog at the Forward. Her writing has appeared in several publications, including The New Republic and The Atlantic. Her book, “The Perils of ‘Privilege,’” was published by St. Martin’s Press in March 2017. She has a PhD in French and French Studies from New York University, and has read a lot of 19th century French Jewish newspapers for a 21st century American.
Phoebe Maltz Bovy
By Phoebe Maltz Bovy
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Life The Radical Innocuousness of the Women’s March
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Life Educate and Encourage Newbie Activists. Don’t Shame Them for Tardiness.
There’s a message I’ve seen floating around, and it goes like this: If you weren’t already aware of all the myriad injustices in American life, if you weren’t already outraged, and you’ve only thought to care now, what with Trump’s election, you should be ashamed. In one very abstract sense, sure — if it took…
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Life I.V.F. as Birthright: Jewish Fertility Foundation Offers Grants
An eJewish Philanthropy post reports that the Jewish Fertility Foundation is offering grants (due February 15th) to help women pay for fertility treatments. To be considered, an applicant needs to be “Jewish-defined as at least 1 Jewish parent (Jewish = as from birth or conversion from any denomination); intention of raising child Jewish.” As the…
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Life Donald Trump’s Subtle Sexism Towards Ivanka Makes Me Nostalgic For Caring About Subtle Bigotry
Fears or hopes or whatever they were of Ivanka Trump serving as a behind-the-scenes first female president can probably be set aside. Donald Trump went to Jared rather than Ivanka for assistance: “‘She is busy buying a house,’ he said [in an interview quoted in the Forward]. ‘She has children so Jared will be engaged…
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Life Patriarchy, Perfectionism, and Anti-Semitism Influence Jewish Girls’ Self-Image
Riki Wilchins has written a fascinating article about her recent work addressing sexism and self-image as they impact Jewish girls. This focus, she explains, took some prompting, even though she herself is Jewish and familiar with these concerns. As she explains in the piece, she hadn’t spontaneously thought of Jewish girls as a group in…
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Life Somewhere on the Upper East Side, a Jewish Woman Has a Neo-Nazi Husband
News broke over the weekend that a prominent neo-Nazi troll going by the name Mike Enoch was not a disgruntled grassroots white supremacist coming out of a part of the country with few Jews and a vivid imagination about what The Jew might be like, but rather a dude living in the Upper East Side…
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Life Sisterhood Call For Submissions
Hello and welcome to the Sisterhood, a blog at the Forward, a venerable Jewish publication based in New York, but with contributors around the world. Want to write for us? Fabulous! The Basics -Please email pitches to Batya Ungar-Sargon and Avital Chizhik-Goldschmidt, at [email protected] and [email protected] -As “Sisterhood” would suggest, the blog has a women’s…
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Life German Court Ponders Whether Synagogue-Burning Is Always Anti-Semitic, Decides Nah
If there were ever a clear act of anti-Semitism, it would be a synagogue torching in Germany. Attacking a synagogue in Europe is about as definitively anti-Jewish, as versus anti-Zionist, as it gets. And Germany! Case closed, one might imagine. Not so: In the Jerusalem Post, Benjamin Weinthal reports that a court decision in Wuppertal…
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