Jeff Jacoby
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Title Publication Date
'First, set fire to their synagogues' Arguable December 10, 2024
The missionary in the parking lot The Boston Globe November 17, 2024
The 'Jew hunt' in Amsterdam was no anomaly The Boston Globe November 13, 2024
For US Jews, the postwar years were a golden age. It ended on Oct. 7. The Boston Globe October 9, 2024
Fix the filibuster by bringing it back Arguable October 1, 2024
Antisemitism and the power of the big lie The Boston Globe September 29, 2024
Trump among the libertarians Arguable May 7, 2024
'Israel Alone' The Boston Globe March 27, 2024
Vandals for Palestine Arguable March 19, 2024
At Columbia Law School, only one student club was rejected this year — the one formed to oppose antisemitism The Boston Globe February 7, 2024
(No) fear of flying Arguable January 16, 2024
A generation of antisemites The Boston Globe December 20, 2023
Waiting for health care in Canada Arguable December 12, 2023
What Hamas can learn from Hanukkah The Boston Globe December 10, 2023
Chester Darling's landmark life Arguable November 28, 2023
Why they rip down the 'Kidnapped from Israel' fliers The Boston Globe October 29, 2023
MLK embraced Israel. Why does BLM embrace Hamas? Arguable October 24, 2023
For Gaza Palestinians, no help from Arab nations Arguable October 17, 2023
The dubious link between education and antisemitism The Boston Globe September 10, 2023
No less than a miracle: Israel turns 75 Arguable April 25, 2023
What's so special about matzah? Arguable April 4, 2023
The 'first lady' of television news Arguable January 10, 2023
The Pilgrims' rabbi Arguable November 22, 2022
The penitential presidents Arguable October 3, 2022
'We did nothing to prevent it' The Boston Globe September 18, 2022
The Munich massacre, 50 years on The Boston Globe / Arguable August 29, 2022
The lifeblood of science Arguable July 11, 2022
A roadmap for Jew-haters The Boston Globe June 15, 2022
The Passover story is an American story The Boston Globe April 13, 2022
Make no mistake: Anti-Zionism is antisemitism The Boston Globe March 20, 2022
It's not just the Holocaust that Whoopi Goldberg got wrong The Boston Globe February 6, 2022
Jewish Study for Non-Jewish Clergy Sapir Winter 2022
The sins we commit with words The Boston Globe September 15, 2021
Blood, sweat, and beauty Arguable July 26, 2021
How to speak out against antisemitism The Boston Globe July 11, 2021
When Jews are attacked in America's streets, who speaks out? The Boston Globe May 26, 2021
Cancelling 'anti-Semitism' The Boston Globe May 9, 2021
The problem with Holocaust education The Boston Globe April 7, 2021
My JD doesn't make me a doctor. Jill Biden's EdD doesn't make her one, either Arguable December 14, 2020
Our guest speaker today, class, is a Jew-hating terrorist The Boston Globe September 16, 2020
Shavuot Study: This is the Torah the World Needs to Hear Sinai Temple, Los Angeles May 28, 2020
The 'Great Pope' who changed the world Arguable May 18, 2020
This too shall pass (over) The Boston Globe April 5, 2020
'Never Again,' again and again The Boston Globe January 27, 2020
Jew-haters, right and left The Boston Globe December 31, 2019
The slaves of Nubia Arguable December 23, 2019
Amid rising anti-Semitism, the People of the Book rejoice with the Law The Boston Globe October 20, 2019
The right choice Mishpacha October 10, 2019
'Proclaim Liberty': How the Hebrew Bible molded revolutionary America The Boston Globe July 7, 2019
The kosher-industrial complex The Boston Globe November 18, 2018
A massacre in Pittsburgh and the 'hardening' of Jewish America The Boston Globe October 29, 2018
Passover and the secret of Jewish longevity The Boston Globe April 1, 2018
Above the Arctic Circle, a Cold War Rosh Hashana The Boston Globe September 17, 2017
In the land where Jews are welcome, anti-Semitism is on the rise The Boston Globe March 12, 2017
The end of Holocaust remembrance The Boston Globe May 1, 2016
Bulger wasn't hardwired to be a murderer. No one is The Boston Globe September 23, 2015
The antisemitic derangement The Boston Globe January 14, 2015
The Jewish state's newest hero wasn't Jewish The Boston Globe November 23, 2014
'Who will rest and who will wander' The Boston Globe October 1, 2014
Amid Holocaust remembrance, antisemitism adapts and thrives The Boston Globe April 27, 2014
A pro-terror rally on a Palestinian campus The Boston Globe November 24, 2013
Darwin's conundrum: Where does compassion come from? The Boston Globe September 4, 2013
Demography doesn't threaten the Jewish state The Boston Globe June 26, 2013
Supreme, yes. But infallible? The Boston Globe March 17, 2013
Grant's greatest regret The Boston Globe December 5, 2012
A vast moral difference The Boston Globe November 21, 2012
'Victims' who persecute The Boston Globe April 18, 2012
Outraged by Mormon proxy baptism? Not this Jew The Boston Globe February 29, 2012
The search for meaning in mortality The Boston Globe October 5, 2011
Q&A with Jeff Jacoby Connecticut Jewish Ledger June 8, 2011
Hitler is dead. Hitlerism lives on The Boston Globe May 1, 2011
Massacre of the innocents The Boston Globe March 16, 2011
The 'Islamophobia' myth The Boston Globe December 8, 2010
The undeniable Jewish state The Boston Globe October 17, 2010
Anti-Semites and double standards The Boston Globe August 4, 2010
Obama, Israel & American Jews: The Challenge Commentary June 2010
Why Are Jews Liberals? Commentary September 2009
Which son are you, Caleb? The Boston Globe April 8, 2009
History's oldest hatred The Boston Globe March 11, 2009
Yes, it's antisemitism The Boston Globe January 7, 2009
At the UN, the Israel-bashing goes on The Boston Globe November 30, 2008
Pastor Hagee was, and wasn't, wrong The Boston Globe June 1, 2008
A triumph of life and hope The Boston Globe May 11, 2008
By the light of the White House menorah The Boston Globe December 16, 2007
The silence of God The Boston Globe June 4, 2006
As Father Coughlin spins in his grave The Boston Globe May 14, 2006
Bringing faith into contempt The Boston Globe January 8, 2006
Obsessive antisemitism The Boston Globe December 18, 2005
Nazi echoes in the Gaza 'disengagement'? The Boston Globe July 31, 2005
The pope who turned antisemitism aside The Boston Globe April 7, 2005
A factory for death The Boston Globe January 27, 2005
Bush, Kerry, and the Jewish vote Boston.com September 28, 2004
Abandoning Gaza will not end terrorism The Boston Globe May 6, 2004
Faith in the depths of hell The Boston Globe April 18, 2004
The cancer of anti-Semitism in Europe The Boston Globe March 14, 2004
Is 'The Passion' antisemitic? The Boston Globe February 24, 2004
The triumph of Chanukah The Boston Globe December 25, 2003
Israel's unshakable allies The Boston Globe May 15, 2003
The face of antisemitism The Boston Globe September 26, 2002
Looking at the horror The Boston Globe June 13, 2002
The canary in Europe's mine The Boston Globe April 28, 2002
Bigoted man on campus The Boston Globe July 2, 2001
They never forgot thee, O Jerusalem The Boston Globe January 4, 2001
My hero, my father The American Enterprise September 2000
The Holocaust deniers' real goal The Boston Globe April 17, 2000
Memoirs of a man with one foot still in Auschwitz The Boston Globe April 3, 2000
Bradley's homage to a race-baiter The Boston Globe December 6, 1999
Suha Arafat's vile slander The Boston Globe November 22, 1999
Who's afraid of the Southern Baptists? The Boston Globe September 13, 1999
Muslim silence about Islamic crimes The Boston Globe June 24, 1999
My father's shoes The Boston Globe April 15, 1999
The antisemitism the West ignores The Boston Globe January 18, 1999
Jews can set a moral example with Holocaust funds The Boston Globe December 7, 1998
What real hate speech sounds like The Boston Globe November 2, 1998
The disastrous Wye accord The Boston Globe October 29, 1998
What kind of kindness? The Boston Globe September 21, 1998
What decency requires of the Swiss The Boston Globe July 18, 1998
The Arab jihad against Israel The Boston Globe May 12, 1998
What Arafat could learn on his visit to the Holocaust Museum The Boston Globe January 22, 1998
Visiting Luhyna, revisiting a horror The Boston Globe September 23, 1997
In defense of 'an eye for an eye' The Boston Globe June 24, 1997
The deceiving of Madeleine Albright The Boston Globe February 11, 1997
The real obstacle to Mideast peace The Boston Globe December 26, 1996
The faith that links Thanksgiving and Chanukah The Boston Globe November 28, 1996
Embers from the Holocaust The Boston Globe August 18, 1996
'The killers were so many' The Boston Globe April 16, 1996
The flames of hatred in the Age of Farrakhan The Boston Globe December 14, 1995
Rabin is not the first victim of this ancient scourge The Boston Globe November 7, 1995
A suspension of barbarity The Boston Globe April 27, 1995
What 'Facing History' really teaches The Boston Globe January 17, 1995
Light's victory over darkness The Boston Globe November 24, 1994
Seeking justice for crimes of the past The Boston Globe September 27, 1994
Racism is now the exception The Boston Globe August 23, 1994
CNN's odd juxtaposition The Boston Globe June 16, 1994
The day the Nazis came for my father's family The Boston Globe April 7, 1994
Farrakhan: A hatred-hustling huckster The Boston Globe March 15, 1994
The public be swayed The Jerusalem Report February 13, 1992
Old school, new look The Jerusalem Report April 4, 1991
The second generation The Christian Science Monitor April 27, 1984

Book Reviews

Book Title Publication Date
Providence and Power: Ten Portraits in Jewish Statesmanship
by Meir Y. Soloveichik
Commentary October 2023
When General Grant Expelled the Jews
by Jonathan D. Sarna
Commentary magazine May 2012
When They Come For Us, We'll Be Gone: The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry
by Gal Beckerman
Commentary March 2011
Speaking of Jews: Rabbis, Intellectuals, and the Creation of an American Public Identity
by Lila Corwin Berman
Commentary October 2009
Why Are Jews Liberals?
by Norman Podhoretz
The Boston Globe September 20, 2009
Jew vs. Jew: The Struggle for the Soul of American Jewry
by Samuel G. Freedman
Azure Winter 2002
Kaddish
by Leon Wieseltier
Azure Autumn 1999

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