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 Ivanka’s Brand Doing Great, Thanks For Asking
Remember how, back in February, it seemed as if Ivanka Trump, the brand, was failing? Seems as if it’s doing rather well. On Refinery29, Yael Kohen reports that parent company G-III Apparel Group “cited the Ivanka Trump brand as one of a number of brands that saw ‘an increase in gross profit’ last year.” Ah,…
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Life Well Actually, Men Interrupt Women Even On The Supreme Court
In a new study, Tonja Jacobi and Dylan Schweers of Northwestern found that on the Supreme Court, “the male justices interrupt the female justices approximately three times as often as they interrupt each other during oral arguments.” In their Harvard Business Review piece about their findings, Jacobi, a law professor, and Schweers, a J.D. candidate…
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Life Sean Spicer’s Very Unfortunate Holocaust Remarks
A highlight, if you could call it that (and I don’t think you could), of being a non-observant Jew on Passover is that I’ve been online to witness, in real Twitter time, President Trump’s press secretary Sean Spicer’s cascade of unfortunate, seemingly ill-informed Holocaust references. Did Hitler use chemical weapons? Yes. Against his own people?…
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Life At Passover, Powerful New Writing By Jewish Women On Body Image
With holidays can come unsolicited body commentary from friends and relatives who haven’t seen you since you were (in their recollection, at least) a different shape or size. With this in mind, here’s some great new writing by Jewish women on body image: Maris Kreizman introduces her brilliant personal essay on illness and inadvertent weight…
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Life In San Bernardino, A Tragically Ordinary Tale
Two stories dominated my feeds yesterday, and by two I mean mostly one: United Airlines managed to cause even more outrage than it had with its leggings ban, this time by having a man physically dragged off one of its planes after he’d refused to volunteer to leave the overbooked aircraft. Everything about the story…
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Life Whatever Happened To Unleavened Shirts?
On Racked, Rebecca Jennings takes on the trend of the moment: deconstructed button-down shirts. Shirts so voluminous that they almost certainly qualify as chametz: [A]bout six months ago… something very odd began happening to shirts. Brands you can’t afford — brands with names you probably don’t even know — started doing things to shirts that…
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Life Great Works From Galka Scheyer’s Art Collection On Display In Pasadena
On April 7th, a new exhibition is opening at the Norton Simon Museum in sunny (I’m assuming) Pasadena that has Sisterhood written all over it. “Maven of Modernism: Galka Scheyer in California”, curated by Gloria Williams Sander, will showcase European modernist art in the context of the Jewish “trailblazing impresario” who brought their works to…
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Life Reform Movement Initiative Goes Beyond Equal Pay Day
Today is Equal Pay Day. Sounds delightful until you pause to think about what the day means: It highlights the pay gap between men and women by recognizing the day a woman would have needed to work until to earn the same amount as a man would have in the past year. Last year, Senator…
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