Phoebe Maltz Bovy, The Signal Magazine Journalist Profile

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Criticizing Israel in order to defend it

5 days ago | thecjn.ca | Phoebe Maltz Bovy
Is (destroying) Harvard good for the Jews?

2 weeks ago | thecjn.ca | Phoebe Maltz Bovy
Is Jewish dieting culture over? Reading 'This is Big' in the age of Ozempic

1 month ago | thecjn.ca | Phoebe Maltz Bovy
Setting Trump aside for a busman's-holiday Britcom

1 month ago | thecjn.ca | Phoebe Maltz Bovy

Did you ever have all your prior assumptions confirmed in one go? That would be the best way I could describe where things are at on my various North-American-Jews-today beats. First, we have the survey data indicating rather persuasively that American Jews are concerned about antisemitism but see Donald Trump as making matters worse. Did you know that American Jews tend to vote Democrat? You did, we all did.
Barry Diller and Diane von F├╝rstenberg's Jewish love story with a twist

1 month ago | thecjn.ca | Phoebe Maltz Bovy
Snowbirds or refugees? Notes on a two-way migration

1 month ago | thecjn.ca | Phoebe Maltz Bovy

Jewish history's big turning points often start with expulsions. Mass movements of our kind tend to be precipitated by some higher power being like, OK, time to get rid of our Jews, with the general population of whichever locale either acquiescing or egging the government on. The Spanish Inquisition. Medieval banishments.
What it feels like to feel like Canada's last remaining Jewish Liberal

2 months ago | thecjn.ca | Phoebe Maltz Bovy
Passover attack on a governor's mansion defied the narrative surrounding Trump's America

2 months ago | thecjn.ca | Phoebe Maltz Bovy
Phoebe Maltz Bovy is probing 'The Jewish Angle' for her upcoming weekly podcast series

2 months ago | thecjn.ca | Phoebe Maltz Bovy
Country houses built by Jewish Europeans remind us how we rise-and sometimes fall

2 months ago | thecjn.ca | Phoebe Maltz Bovy

Jewish Country Housesedited by Juliet Carey and Abigail Green(Profile Books)On the British sitcom To the Manor Born (1979-1981), a posh and haughty Englishwoman named Audrey fforbes-Hamilton finds herself widowed and financially obliged to sell her stately home in the countryside and move into a none-too-shabby outbuilding. The buyer is one Richard DeVere, proprietor of Cavendish Foods, previously residing in London. A new-money tycoon.