The Jewish Angle
Episodes
Hadley Freeman: A cafe vandalism fiasco & Woody Allen's novel
24 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Earlier this month, British vandals defaced a new location of Gail's, a bakery chain with 170 locations across the U.K. They smashed the store's windo...
Mark Oppenheimer: Judy Blume's underappreciated role in the Jewish literary canon
10 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Judy Blume, the acclaimed author of young people's novels, saw resurged interest in her work in 2023. One of her most famous books, Are You There God?...
Kat Rosenfield: Separating art from identity politics
24 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Kat Rosenfield doesn't write Jewish fiction. Her forthcoming book, How to Survive in the Woods, is a thriller set in the wilderness of Maine—not ver...
Jonathan Kay: The end of the era of antisemitism 'czars'
10 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Earlier this month, the federal Canadian government announced it would dissolve the offices of two anti-hate envoys: one for combatting antisemitism, ...
Becky Aizen: How the JAP stereotype shaped perceptions of Jewish women
27 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In Canada, Jewish girls seen as uppity and privileged have a nickname: the JAP, which stands for Jewish American Princess. Meanwhile, around the world...
Adam Louis-Klein: How anti-Zionism emerged as a modern ideology
13 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Anti-Zionism is often presented as simply a political critique of Israel. But in reality, it frames Zionists as a hostile, genocidal group, while ofte...
Lior Zaltzman: The evolution of Lena Dunham in Netflix's 'Too Much'
15 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Lena Dunham’s latest Netflix rom-com series, Too Much, hasn't gained much traction since debuting in July 2025. In November, Netflix announced it wa...
Bagel Emoji: What an Orthodox Jew learned while living as Reform for a week
08 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In certain Orthodox Jewish circles, Reform Judaism is synonymous with far-left, queer, antifa-aligned eco-protesters—and, if your only information a...
Arno Rosenfeld: Indiana University and the conservativization of Jewish Studies
01 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Indiana University’s Jewish Studies program was thrown into turmoil after the quiet removal of its longtime director, Holocaust historian Mark Rosem...
Chaya Lauer: Let Jewish writers write about whatever they want
24 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Earlier this month, the New York Magazine cultural spinoff Vulture published an article by Andrew Ridker, "A New Jewish Plotline", asking wh...
Josh Yunis: How Jewish leftists are navigating a Zohran Mamdani world
17 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Zohran Mamdani, while running to be mayor of New York City, initially refused to disavow the slogan “Globalize the Intifada”. Once he did eventual...
Emily Tamkin: How Israel caused a 'civil war' within right-wing politics
11 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the wake of Charlie Kirk's assassination, other right-wing commentators are pushing their way into a more mainstream spotlight. To that end, Tucker...
Lahav Harkov: What's life like in post-ceasefire Israel?
03 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Israelis breathed a collective sigh of relief after Israel and Hamas agreed to a ceasefire that included the return of the remaining hostages and and ...
David Polansky: Is free speech suddenly freer in Canada than the U.S.?
30 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
NOTE: Due to a technical error from our host server, this episode of The Jewish Angle did not release as scheduled in RSS feeds on Oct. 23. We are pub...
Ari Y. Kelman: Antisemitism will always exist. Why do some Jews believe otherwise?
27 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Western world has never "defeated" bigotry in the way it hoped. Try as some might to stamp out racism in all its forms, there are still ...
Emma Forrest wrote a seminal Jewish novel—and was quietly ghosted for it
06 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The latest novel by British author Emma Forrest, Father Figure, is arguably the greatest work of Jewish literature in decades—at least, that's accor...
Michael Inzlicht: Quebec as a model for Canadian patriotism
29 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Canadian patriotism has surged since U.S. President Donald Trump took office and waged a trade war with his country's northern neighbour. But while th...
Erin Beser: A Rosh Hashanah resolution to cut back shopping
16 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
You may have new year's resolutions. But do you have Jewish new year's resolutions? Erin Beser, a Jewish educator and rebbetzin, does one each year wi...
Marsha Lederman: Finding the 'humanitarian middle' after Oct. 7
08 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the immediate aftermath of Oct. 7, 2023, Marsha Lederman wasn't sure if she wanted to write about Hamas' historic terror attack for her regular col...
Meghan Daum: Essay-writing in the era of outrage
02 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What's the line between a personal essay and a hot take? Takes are written quickly, maybe flippantly, to latch onto a news hook. But essays are longer...
Sharon Waxman: Hollywood is horny and white. But is it still Jewish?
25 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There has been a vibe shift in Hollywood over the last couple years. Conventionally attractive white people having sex have come back in favour (see: ...
Joel Swanson: The Dreyfus affair, Clermont-Tonnerre, and other historical French analogies to better understand Trump and the Jews
18 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In medieval and early modern Europe, the Christian ruling class enjoyed the banking services of what were known as "court Jews"—Jewish peo...
Joanna Rakoff: Floral fashions and MAGA momfluencers
07 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The host of this show, Phoebe Maltz Bovy, likes to wear floral dresses. So does her guest, author Joanna Rakoff. But while these two women are fans of...
Avi Finegold: Is it lashon hara to make fun of the Coldplay Jumbotron couple?
28 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To our knowledge, neither the now-former CEO of tech company Astronomer, nor the company's now-former head of HR, are Jewish. The secretive couple—w...
Gabby Deutch: The MAGA rift
22 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When U.S. President Donald Trump re-ran for the presidency in 2024, American voters elected him on the premise that he would mark a shift from 2000s-e...
Michael Kaminer: The shifting tide of trendy Jewish food
14 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ashkenazi food—until recently relegated to the joke pile of ethnic foods, unavoidably beige and full of fat—is undergoing a surprising revival. Fr...
David Weinfeld: Trump vs. Harvard and the managerial class
07 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On June 30, a task force set up by the U.S. federal government, aimed at combatting antisemitism, published an open letter to Harvard University. &quo...
Aryeh Cohen-Wade: Zohran Mamdani's mayoral win marks a turning point for New York politics
30 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When Zohran Mamdani announced his candidacy for mayor of New York City in late 2024, he flew under the radar of voters and critics. But as his campaig...
Hadley Freeman: Can we not have nuance in the Israel-Palestine conversation?
23 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hadley Freeman often goes back and forth, in her head, about Israel and Palestine. One the one hand, Israel has killed more than 57,000 Gazans; on the...
Ellie Avishai: Cancelled to the left of me, cancelled by the right
16 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On Mar. 3, Ellie Avishai hopped on a call with a senior colleague from the University of Austin in Texas. She was shocked when the colleague informed ...
Eric Alterman: A civil war is tearing apart Western Jewry
09 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The mainstream North American Jewish Diaspora is at a crossroads. Down one path lies U.S. President Donald Trump, American Evangelicals and legacy Jew...
David Schraub: Trump's anti-Harvard tirade has nothing to do with antisemitism
26 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Last week, U.S. President Donald Trump tried to revoke Harvard University's ability to enroll international students—a move that was soon blocked by...
Jacob Silverman: The internet has become an alienating place
20 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Over the last year, odds are good that you've seen what's been dubbed "AI slop"—unhinged, nonsensical "art" generated by artific...
Yoel Inbar: DEI was not designed for the fallout from Oct. 7
13 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Yoel Inbar rose to prominence in the fall of 2023, when he was in the process of getting hired at the University of California, Los Angeles. He didn't...
Leigh Stein on the bygone days of girl-boss social media
05 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This month, the Federal Trade Commission in the United States finally brought a long-awaited antitrust court case against Meta, the company that owns ...
Jewish voting patterns explained, feat. David Polansky
29 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On the eve of Canada's federal election, U.S. President Donald Trump took to Truth Social, the little-used social media website he created, to recomme...
Emily Tamkin on a politically divided American Jewry
21 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The United States has historically been unusually resistant to antisemitism, for a number of reasons: some that speak well of America; others that are...
Trailer: The Jewish Angle with Phoebe Maltz Bovy
31 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join Phoebe Maltz Bovy, a culture critic and opinion editor at The Canadian Jewish News, as she explores the modern world of Jewish life — with Jews...