Phoebe Maltz Bovy, a culture critic and opinion editor at The Canadian Jewish News, explores the wider world of modern Jewish life, stuck between dangerous political flanks on both left and right.
The Jewish Angle
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Phoebe Maltz Bovy, a culture critic and opinion editor at The Canadian Jewish News, explores the wider world of modern Jewish life, stuck between dangerous political flanks on both left and right.
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June 30, 2026
Virginia Karnstein: The straight woman's feminist identity crisis
<p>In May, The CJN's opinion editor, Phoebe Maltz Bovy, published her latest book, The Last Straight Woman. One of the most incisive reviews (from a Jewish writer, no less) was Virginia Karnstein, a PhD candidate whose research crosses feminism, antisemitism and vampires—and, sometimes, the middle of that unique Venn diagram. </p> <p>The Last Straight Woman does not focus on vampires, but it does look at the evolution of feminism and its intersection with sexual orientation and gender identity. So we invited Karnstein onto The Jewish Angle podcast to discuss Maltz Bovy's book, the history of second- and third-wave feminism, separatism, MeToo, tradwives, femcels, the changing cultural status of heterosexual women... and a little bit of vampirism. </p> <p><strong>Credits</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>Host:</strong> Phoebe Maltz Bovy</li> <li><strong>Producer and editor:</strong> Michael Fraiman</li> <li><strong>Music:</strong> " <a href="https://imlcollective.uk/product/gypsy-waltz/" rel="nofollow">Gypsy Waltz</a> " by Frank Freeman, licensed from the Independent Music Licensing Collective</li> </ul> <p><strong>Support our show</strong></p> <ul> <li><a href="https://thecjn.ca/newsletters/" rel="nofollow">Subscribe to The CJN newsletter</a></li> <li><a href="https://thecjn.ca/donate/" rel="nofollow">Donate to The CJN</a> (+ get a charitable tax receipt)</li> <li><a href="https://pnc.st/s/jewish-angle" rel="nofollow">Subscribe to The Jewish Angle</a></li> </ul>
June 16, 2026
Kara Jesella: How feminism turned against Jews
<p>For decades, Jewish women played a central role in building feminist movements, shaping ideas about equality, activism, and social justice. Yet as of the last 30 years, they find themselves cast as symbols of privilege, whiteness, and oppression within the very spaces they helped create. How did that happen?</p> <p>Writer and scholar Kara Jesella joins Phoebe Maltz Bovy to discuss her new book, <a href="https://feministantisemitism.com/" rel="nofollow">Feminist Antisemitism: An Intellectual History</a>. They explore the evolution of feminist theory, the rise of identity politics and queer theory, the emergence of the “as a Jew” phenomenon, and the ways Jewish women became uniquely positioned within debates over race, power, Zionism, and belonging. The conversation traces a decades-long intellectual history that helps explain some of today's fiercest conflicts over Jewish identity, feminism, and Israel.</p> <p><strong>Credits</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>Host:</strong> Phoebe Maltz Bovy</li> <li><strong>Producer and editor:</strong> Michael Fraiman</li> <li><strong>Music:</strong> " <a href="https://imlcollective.uk/product/gypsy-waltz/" rel="nofollow">Gypsy Waltz</a> " by Frank Freeman, licensed from the Independent Music Licensing Collective</li> </ul> <p><strong>Support our show</strong></p> <ul> <li><a href="https://thecjn.ca/newsletters/" rel="nofollow">Subscribe to The CJN newsletter</a></li> <li><a href="https://thecjn.ca/donate/" rel="nofollow">Donate to The CJN</a> (+ get a charitable tax receipt)</li> <li><a href="https://pnc.st/s/jewish-angle" rel="nofollow">Subscribe to The Jewish Angle</a></li> </ul>
June 2, 2026
Josh Yunis: Should Jews focus more on Israel—or deliberately decentre it?
<p>As the Western world grows more hostile to Jewish life—as exemplified by rising attacks on synagogues and Jewish schools, bullying and boycotts—one would think this strengthens the case for Israel's right to exist as a safe homeland for Jews. But Israel's existence, many anti-Zionists argue, is the very reason for so much antisemitism right now. </p> <p>On the flip side, several of those same anti-Zionists wish for Israel to disappear. But then where would the Israeli diaspora go? To the Western world—where they would open up Israeli stores that one can imagine being continued targets of protests and graffiti. </p> <p>These paradoxes have no easy answer. But for writer Josh Yunis, they raise the question of what it means to centre—or deliberately decentre—Israel in contemporary Jewish life. As he writes in a recent article, "<a href="https://joshyunis.substack.com/p/on-collective-jewish-guilt" rel="nofollow">On Collective Jewish Guilt</a>", debates over Zionism, diaspora identity, and progressive politics are intensifying while many Jews feel increasingly alienated from leftist movements that once promised solidarity. Yunis joins Phoebe Maltz Bovy on the latest episode of The Jewish Angle to explain more. </p> <p><strong>Credits</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>Host:</strong> Phoebe Maltz Bovy</li> <li><strong>Producer and editor:</strong> Michael Fraiman</li> <li><strong>Music:</strong> " <a href="https://imlcollective.uk/product/gypsy-waltz/" rel="nofollow">Gypsy Waltz</a> " by Frank Freeman, licensed from the Independent Music Licensing Collective</li> </ul> <p><strong>Support our show</strong></p> <ul> <li><a href="https://thecjn.ca/newsletters/" rel="nofollow">Subscribe to The CJN newsletter</a></li> <li><a href="https://thecjn.ca/donate/" rel="nofollow">Donate to The CJN</a> (+ get a charitable tax receipt)</li> <li><a href="https://pnc.st/s/jewish-angle" rel="nofollow">Subscribe to The Jewish Angle</a></li> </ul>
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