Jeff Jacoby

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.

by Jeff Jacoby

The killing of George Floyd was intolerable. So is the mayhem.

by Jeff Jacoby

While the bubonic plague raged elsewhere, Newton, in seclusion, embarked on what he'd later describe as the most intellectually productive period of his life.

by Jeff Jacoby

Have decent people learned not to shrug at genocide?

by Jeff Jacoby

If the long, bitter history of antisemitism teaches anything, it is that "the oldest hatred" can take any shape and adapt to any ideology.

by Jeff Jacoby

Amid all the bad news, we are living in the best era our species has ever known.

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Amid rising anti-Semitism, the People of the Book rejoice with the Torah.

by Jeff Jacoby

Remember that study showing religious children are more selfish than non-religious kids? Turns out it was wrong.

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Our world has serious problems. Having more babies can help solve them.

by Jeff Jacoby

The Hebrew Bible indelibly molded the American founding, and its influence remains a part of its national story.

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Why should any child be abandoned, or any baby deprived of life, when so many potential mothers and fathers yearn with all their hearts for the chance to adopt?

by Jeff Jacoby

Harshness of our public dialogue is being driven by hardline ideologues who see the world through lenses so thick that they can’t understand each other's views.

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Religious faith and institutions are the strongest drivers of philanthropic works in US society.

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America has undergone a kosher revolution.

by Jeff Jacoby

In the America I grew up in, Jews assumed that peace and harmony would go on indefinitely. No more.

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Any regime that imprisons, tortures, or kills people because of their opinions is by definition an enemy of the free world.

by Jeff Jacoby

Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words – ugly, gossipy, cruel words – can eventually break a whole society. Just look at what ours has turned into.

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Let us count the ways.

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They have wealth equal to half the population. It's a striking statistic but it's also irrelevant.

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Chairman of the Palestine Olympic Committee applauds terror attacks and denounces games that bring Arab and Jewish kids together.

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Jeff Jacoby’s tribute to his father-in-law, a volunteer fireman for over 60 years, who recently passed away.

by Jeff Jacoby

He never forgot his American liberators, and never stopped loving the country that gave him a second lease on life.

by Jeff Jacoby

Eventually, everything is forgotten. Even the worst crime in history.

by Jeff Jacoby

Why are there Muslim ghettos in Belgium but not in the United States?

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The extraordinary generosity of ordinary Americans.

by Jeff Jacoby

Hard to believe but this year has been "the best year in history for the average human being to be alive."

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Taking a picture is not the same thing as experiencing a moment. In fact it’s a way of forgetting.

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Bulger wasn't hardwired to be a murderer. No one is.

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Does Tehran mean what it says? Oh, yes.

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"I see parchment burning, but the letters are soaring free."

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France's Jews are leaving, and that never bodes well for the society driving them out.

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Has the time come to give up on the ideal of objective, unbiased journalism?

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Is there a connection?

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His words were vulgar and bigoted, but private.

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The oldest hatred has assumed a new form for a new age: hostility to Zionism and Israel.

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Where is our shame?

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The resilience of American liberty is not about to change.

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Good laws will never abolish all evil.

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When General Grant expelled the Jews.

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Shin is the first person born and raised in a North Korean monstrous slave-labor prison to escape and tell his harrowing tale.

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A second look at the controversial documentary.

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Growing up, raising kids to be good Jews went hand-in-hand with raising them to be good Americans.

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Radical Islam could be weakened by deploying the moral force of liberal democracy and equality.

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The Beckhams gave birth to their fourth child. Are they bad role models?

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The San Francisco initiative is an assault on Jewish religious liberty.