Jeff Jacoby

by Jeff Jacoby

Heavy metal band Ghost bans phones at their concerts, proving the best concert moments aren’t captured — they’re lived.

by Jeff Jacoby

Because one young person refused to back away from a fight, the plug has been pulled on a leading purveyor of hatred. Now what about Harvard?

by Jeff Jacoby

Has the UN arrived at a turning point? Or was Monday's conference merely a fig leaf -- a PR response to some bad press?

by Jeff Jacoby

In a country with no more than a wisp of Jewish life, where does such an appetite for things Jewish come from?

by Jeff Jacoby

We are blessed by an amazing community.

by Jeff Jacoby

On Rosh Hashanah, Jewish soldiers on duty around the world will gather in prayer with the full support of the US military.

by Jeff Jacoby

It's encouraging to see prominent Arab thinkers – and the first Arab government in more than 25 years – rejecting the old rancor, and enumerating the gains peace can make possible.

by Jeff Jacoby

As overt antisemitism becomes increasingly normalized, the hate crimes will continue to pile up.

by Jeff Jacoby

That turkey you’re eating required the efforts of thousands of people. Don’t take it for granted.

by Jeff Jacoby

They are entitled to say "Come to Jesus" and I am entitled to say "No, thank you."

by Jeff Jacoby

Antisemites promoted falsehoods so monstrous and vicious, so audaciously and aggressively untrue, that their utter implausibility gives them the illusion of truth. It continues after Oct. 7.

by Jeff Jacoby

While Nike celebrates athletics at its worst, let’s remember that the most inspiring of all competitors are those who don’t forget that winning is not the only thing.

by Jeff Jacoby

The criterion for those eligible for assisted suicide keeps expanding.

by Jeff Jacoby

Generation Z has serious problems. It has serious advantages, too.

by Jeff Jacoby

What The Economist unwittingly gets right about the Jewish state.

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Prisoners of conscience risk their lives for the freedom we take for granted. They deserve to know that we have not forgotten them.

by Jeff Jacoby

At Columbia Law School, only one student club was rejected this year — the one formed to oppose antisemitism.

by Jeff Jacoby

The swastika stands for evil and mass murder. So does the hammer and sickle.

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The transformative power of second chances.

by Jeff Jacoby

Antisemitism has proliferated so readily among young people because they have been indoctrinated to think that way.

by Jeff Jacoby

The promise of Hanukkah and of Jewish history is that Hamas will ultimately fail and fade into oblivion.

by Jeff Jacoby

Antisemitism has the power to override every norm and decent impulse.

by Jeff Jacoby

Education is no prophylactic against the hatred of Jews.

by Jeff Jacoby

For the first two years of World War II, Stalin and Hitler were allies.

by Jeff Jacoby

Douglass excoriated America's hypocrisy. But he exulted in America's democratic promise.

by Jeff Jacoby

A new survey suggests that religion and other traditional American values are weaker than they have ever been. Are things about to change?

by Jeff Jacoby

Amid the bitter oppression of life under Hamas, there are many Palestinians who dream of something better, freer, more hopeful.

by Jeff Jacoby

Thomas Jefferson argued that when it comes to religion, “Divided we stand, united we fall.”

by Jeff Jacoby

People are the ultimate resource.

by Jeff Jacoby

In a powerful film, Ken Burns chronicles America's abandonment of the Jews during the Holocaust.

by Jeff Jacoby

The bond between Judaism and Jerusalem is ancient and unbreakable, on the saddest day of the year and every other day.

by Jeff Jacoby

At the intersection of science and public policy, nothing is more hazardous than dogmatism enforced through the squelching of dissenting attitudes.

by Jeff Jacoby

The Mapping Project is animated by one of the most durable and deadly conspiracy theories in human history.

by Jeff Jacoby

Toxic polarization is turning disagreements into a binary war of good vs. evil, right vs. wrong, enlightened vs. barbaric.

by Jeff Jacoby

A government that can criminalize Holocaust denial this week can criminalize other opinions next week.

by Jeff Jacoby

The Exodus story is, of course, first and foremost a Jewish narrative. But it has over time become an American narrative as well.

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A cautionary tale about being complicit in our own oppression.

by Jeff Jacoby

Antisemitism speaks the language of extermination.

by Jeff Jacoby

Dawkins advocates for reducing “undesirable” populations by preventing them from being born in the first place.

by Jeff Jacoby

When Jews are attacked in America's streets, who speaks out?

by Jeff Jacoby

Why dropping the hyphen in 'anti-Semitism' is actually a big deal.

by Jeff Jacoby

But true believers are everywhere.

by Jeff Jacoby

A generation of Holocaust classes has apparently done nothing to stem the rise of anti-Jewish hatred.

by Jeff Jacoby

Symbol of slavery or freedom? Exploring the seeming contradictory meanings of this ancient bread.

by Jeff Jacoby

An 1860 speech by Frederick Douglass, a leader of the abolitionist movement, takes on cancel culture.

by Jeff Jacoby

My father didn’t hate God for what he had lost and didn’t abandon the Judaism in which he had been reared. On the contrary, he deepened it.

by Jeff Jacoby

Why John Quincy Adams regarded what the Mayflower passengers accomplished with something approaching awe.

by Jeff Jacoby

Culturally, the freedom to express unpopular views has never been more endangered.

by Jeff Jacoby

Don't let a legitimate goal – overcoming racial bigotry – turn into a frenzy of character assassination and public humiliation.

by Jeff Jacoby

It has become tempting to reduce historical figures to a single, defining, negative characteristic. It's also false.