Jeff Jacoby is a columnist for The Boston Globe. To see a month's worth of his recent columns, please visit Boston Globe
by Jeff Jacoby
In the America I grew up in, Jews assumed that peace and harmony would go on indefinitely. No more.
Any regime that imprisons, tortures, or kills people because of their opinions is by definition an enemy of the free world.
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.
On Rosh Hashanah, Jewish soldiers on duty around the world will gather in prayer with the full support of the US military.
Let us count the ways.
They have wealth equal to half the population. It's a striking statistic but it's also irrelevant.
Chairman of the Palestine Olympic Committee applauds terror attacks and denounces games that bring Arab and Jewish kids together.
Jeff Jacoby’s tribute to his father-in-law, a volunteer fireman for over 60 years, who recently passed away.
He never forgot his American liberators, and never stopped loving the country that gave him a second lease on life.
Eventually, everything is forgotten. Even the worst crime in history.
Why are there Muslim ghettos in Belgium but not in the United States?
The extraordinary generosity of ordinary Americans.
Hard to believe but this year has been "the best year in history for the average human being to be alive."
Taking a picture is not the same thing as experiencing a moment. In fact it’s a way of forgetting.
Bulger wasn't hardwired to be a murderer. No one is.
Does Tehran mean what it says? Oh, yes.
"I see parchment burning, but the letters are soaring free."
France's Jews are leaving, and that never bodes well for the society driving them out.
Has the time come to give up on the ideal of objective, unbiased journalism?
Is there a connection?
His words were vulgar and bigoted, but private.
The oldest hatred has assumed a new form for a new age: hostility to Zionism and Israel.
Where is our shame?
We are blessed by an amazing community.
The resilience of American liberty is not about to change.
Good laws will never abolish all evil.
When General Grant expelled the Jews.
Thanksgiving weekend is made possible by a vast number of strangers. Don’t take it for granted.
Shin is the first person born and raised in a North Korean monstrous slave-labor prison to escape and tell his harrowing tale.
A second look at the controversial documentary.
Growing up, raising kids to be good Jews went hand-in-hand with raising them to be good Americans.
Radical Islam could be weakened by deploying the moral force of liberal democracy and equality.
The Beckhams gave birth to their fourth child. Are they bad role models?
The San Francisco initiative is an assault on Jewish religious liberty.
Book review of When They Come For Us, We'll Be Gone, by Gal Beckerman.
When a tragedy like the one in Tucson strikes, most of us would do well to keep silence.
For Jews and Muslims tension and hostility are the exception. America's exemplary tolerance is the rule.
Reason alone is not enough to keep human beings humane.
Tell the Sept 10 people that the war against radical Islam is far from over.
Orwell's warning is more urgent than ever.
Genocide denial must be intolerable, above all to those for whom "never again" is a sacred principle.
Religious inquiry and scientific investigation can complement each other.
Denial is a luxury we cannot afford.
Iran's intentions are nakedly, malignantly clear. What is not clear at all is what the civilized world will do about it
The real insult to Islam is the violence, terror, and bloodshed that Islamist fanatics unleash in the name of their religion
"Where was God in those days?" asked the pope. Here's a possible answer.
Irving's opinions are vile, and his arguments about the Holocaust are ludicrous. But he doesn't belong in prison.
Today the censors may be coming for some unfunny Mohammed cartoons, but tomorrow it is your words and ideas they will silence.
Eighty years ago, the thought controllers wanted no Darwin; today's thought controllers want only Darwin.
In a country with no more than a wisp of Jewish life, where does such an appetite for things Jewish come from?
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