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 My Brief Stint as a Gamer
When I was about eight, I was in the waiting room to see the dentist. There were some boys around my age playing a video game. I didn’t have video games at home, didn’t know anything about them, and was thus intrigued. I asked to join but was rebuffed. An adult (someone’s parent? a receptionist?)…
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Life Will 2020 Bring a Jewish Woman President?
In the New Yorker, Amy Davidson offers a list of thirteen women who might make strong presidential candidates the next time around. Davidson notes that qualifications in politics are no longer required for the job, thus opening the field to successful people from all professions. Number six on the list is Sheryl Sandberg, who would…
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Life Wardrobe Malfunction: Knesset ‘Miniskirt’ Rule Humiliates Sensibly-Dressed Aide
Remember last summer’s burkini ban in France, where police (!) in the South of France — as in, actual police, not fashion-police-y French beach-goers — demanded a woman take off a bathing suit a new law deemed too modest? (See Jane Eisner’s analysis.) Even more frighteningly (though neither is great…), in Mosul, Iraq, reports the…
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Life ‘Merry Christmas’ Does Double Duty as Innocuous Greeting and Dog-Whistle
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. pic.twitter.com/iLjpDQmDvA — Heritage Foundation (@Heritage) December 12, 2016 The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, tweeted its holiday well-wishes, and by “holiday well-wishes” I mean Christmastime message of exclusion. “We’re going to start saying ‘Merry Christmas again,’” the message reads, with a photo of a camouflage MAGA-hat-wearing…
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Life Confessions from the Bubble
Note: satire. Ever wondered who voted for Clinton in the last election? Half the country, you say? No, can’t be! There’s this bubble. Trust me. I’m it. As can safely be assumed of every last Clinton voter… I have only ever eaten the following foods: kale, arugula, quinoa, tofu (organic), Vietnamese food prepared by a…
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Life The New Teen Vogue: In New Political Climate, Girls’ Mag Gets Serious
Remember how we recently gazed, in awestruck admiration, at Teen Vogue tackling the subject of young Jewish women dealing with anti-Semitism? Turns out that’s not the publication’s only coverage of the topic. Teen Vogue is publishing a whole lot of serious (progressive) journalism these days, addressing a wide range of social issues of interest to…
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Life (Yet) Another Op-Ed Takes On Sheryl Sandberg and Lena Dunham’s Feminism. Meanwhile, in Ohio…
We have, on the one hand, an Ohio legislator, active in getting an anti-abortion “heartbeat” bill approved, offering the following response, in 2012, to a reporter who’d asked him why he imagines women opt to get abortions: “It’s a question I’ve never even thought about.” (More context tells you that he gestured first at “economics,”…
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Life Links for Later: The Melania-Gown Edition
-Rachel Lubitz has a list of fashion designer who are OK with, ambivalent about, or against dressing Melania Trump. The Jewish designer (and Holocaust survivor’s daughter) Diane von Furstenberg, who at one point sold a “Melania” dress, is among the OK-with-it. Huh. -Michelle Goldberg defends Keith Ellison from charges of anti-Semitism. -Irin Carmon takes a…
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