Phoebe Maltz Bovy

CHOTINER: So I'm clear, you ate two burritos in one sitting?

ME: Absolutely not. No. I ate a burrito for lunch yesterday and another one today.

C: But you ordered them both simultaneously?

ME: Naturally I wanted the other one in reserve just in case.

C: Naturally. Just in case.

Not merely Canadian but "anticipated." I have no idea what this means but I am assuming better than unanticipated.

Cosmic punishment I am aware for the vain act of a self-google.

Note that if you put stuff online about people, naming them and saying rude things about them, they might just find it!

A good thing to do before going to sleep is locate the person (once an irl friend, isn't it the way) who apparently hates you most in the world, and I guess for political reasons!

Meanwhile in reading news I have the world's most chaotic to-read/am-reading pile. If you were wondering, does it include Woody Allen or Lindy West, the answer you're looking for is why not both.

Not merely Canadian but "anticipated." I have no idea what this means but I am assuming better than unanticipated.

Original incarnation I don’t know, people hated Jews earlier, antisemitism the term was only coined later, whatever, none of this matters, unfortunately.

I feel like I’ve been calling that kind of political rhetoric antisemitic for literally 20 years, a lot of good it’s done!

Guess who got the badge of Canadian!

Come work with me at @forward.com! We're looking for a managing editor to work with our phenomenal team.

If American Jews held these puppet strings then the US would probably not be at war with Iran, is the thing. ANYWAY.

What kind of conniving can American Jews be up to if we can't even get our preferred candidate, the one from the less war-y party, into office?!

How do the neo-antisemite brigade explain Jewish control blah blah blah in an America where Trump 1) won the popular vote but 2) most Jews voted Harris?

thecjn.ca/opinion/pers... one of several occasions I covered this!

phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com/p/shirts-sho...

Yes - the Jewish-woman version of this is that plus a woman onto whom one can project whichever thoughts about her kind (depends which branch of antisemitism we're talking whether it's 'princess' or 'frump' or 'dual loyalties' but it's never fun)

If I may intersectional this based on academic research AND life experiences (none recent thank goodness) it is entirely possible for a man to be a big ol' antisemite and even to PARTICULARLY seek out Jewish women.

I gather that everyone here is 100% certain Donald Trump is a misogynist.

So who here actually knew that his wife is a woman?

And how does that influence your certainty?

Are any of these any good? I have no idea. I was hoping photographing them all together like this would lead to handbag epiphanies. It has not.

The runners-up.

The best of the bunch.

All my handbags An assessment.

Not paywalled, a record of my ~handbag collection~. Of interest possibly at most to @excited.bsky.social phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com/p/all-my-han...

"(if you actually want to know what I think about particular Jewish Canadian novels, feel free to read my book of literary study, Leaving Other People Alone: Diaspora, Zionism and Palestine in Contemporary Jewish Fiction)" is my fave bit.

You will want to read the final letter. I know I did! thecjn.ca/opinion/bob-...

My professional goal is to be interviewed by Chotiner and arrive at my own suckitude before he does. I want to beat him to it.

We have agency, but agency is the power to choose our own actions, not the actions of those around us. We and our organizations should be doing and saying good things because they are the right things to do and say, not because of some calculation regarding antisemitism.

Right this is not about Israelis being another species or morality realm than Americans but two countries with different interests and different locations!

I sometimes forget not everyone's brain is imdb x Wikipedia of sitcom trivia. Sorry!

Something incredibly jarring about wading through comments on Substack about how antisemitism is just this thing Jews call it when someone dares say Israel has overreached in Gaza (something many Jews myself included have said), and then, like, reading the local news.