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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Ijeoma Oluo’s interview with Rachel Dolezal, in The Stranger, is today’s must-read. Yes, Dolezal is the much-discussed white woman who identifies as black. Her again?, you may find yourself thinking, but Oluo’s article goes beyond the oddities of Dolezal’s story, and gets at bigger questions about racism. The crux of the interview is when Oluo…
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Charlotte Gainsbourg — daughter of French-Jewish singer Serge Gainsbourg and English actress (and handbag namesake) Jane Birkin — continues the family tradition of combining artistic excellence with Parisian glamorousness. Gainsbourg plays an important role in Joseph Cedar’s new film, “Norman”, and is also (oh to be so chic and part-French!) promoting a makeup line with…
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Life An Easy Verdict: Anne Frank, Not ‘Privileged’
There are a lot of things going on in actor Daryl Deino’s American Spectator article from last week, entitled “Anne Frank’s ‘Privilege’?!” In the conservative publication, Deino recounts a disturbing conversation he overheard among a group of 20-somethings in a Glendale, California Starbucks: One of the kids sported a buzz cut, scruffy beard, tattoos all…
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For shoppers and browsers, department stores can be a fragrant, shiny escape from the harsh outside world. (I know this from personal experience and having read — and taught — Emile Zola’s novel, “The Ladies’ Paradise.”) Not so, necessarily, for the stores’ workers. At The Cut, Diana Tsui reports that Bloomingdales employees are having a…
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Life Is It Kosher For Ivanka To Do Business With China?
Ivanka Trump’s brand is doing well, and its supporters extend well beyond Trump country. The Associated Press reports that “[o]n April 6, Ivanka Trump’s company won provisional approval from the Chinese government for three new trademarks, giving it monopoly rights to sell Ivanka brand jewelry, bags and spa services in the world’s second-largest economy.” This…
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Life Let’s Keep ‘Friend Zone’ Talk Out Of Jewish Birthrate Discussions
An article appeared a couple of weeks ago in the Federalist, “Why Men and Women Can Never Be ‘Just Friends’”, that inspired a lot of pushback at the time. While its author, Hans Fiene, is a Lutheran pastor, the topic the piece deals with — demographics — couldn’t be more connected to Jewish life. Fiene,…
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Life A Fashion Blog For The Heel-Averse
For that phase of my life extending roughly from the weekly bat mitzvah years (I went to a girls’ school) to early college, I would — in my vague recollection, at least — wear heels. Some of the time. As I got a bit older, and settled into my own personal style, I started to…
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Life The Guy Who Quit ‘Hot’ Women — And Got Engaged To Short Brunette
By now you may have already read, and read some of the copious commentary on, Christian Gollayan’s epic New York Post story, “Why I won’t date hot women anymore.” The “I” the headline refers to is not the item’s author, but its subject, Dan Rochkind, who “spent the better part of his 30s going on…
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