"THE BIDEN FBI PLACED 274 AGENTS INTO THE CROWD ON JANUARY 6." As you know, Biden wasn't president on that day. Trump was. Don't you think Trump should know it? And doesn't his message, below, suggest that he is unfit for the office?

#YomKippur is here. Ahead lies a day of fasting, prayer, and repentance. We all have wrongdoing to atone for — above all, perhaps, for the terribly destructive sins we commit with words. May we deserve forgiveness, and be kinder next year. גְּמַר חֲתִימָה טוֹבָה www.bostonglobe.com/2021/09/15/o...

Erika Kirk was widely praised for declaring that she "forgives" her husband's murderer. But as a Jew heading into #YomKippur, I found her words deeply troubling. 𝘕𝘰 𝘰𝘯𝘦 has the right to forgive someone else’s killing—not even his widow. My new essay explains why: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/30/o...

There's no end to the ways the Trump administration finds to be odious. First it insisted names linked to Confederate traitors be restored to US military bases. Yet now it insists exhibits about slavery must be 𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘥 from national historic sites. Shameful. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

The Trump administration is deporting Russian dissidents back to Putin’s control. Russian defectors who escaped to avoid the war in Ukraine were rounded up and turned over to Moscow — together w/ details of their opposition. A truly shocking betrayal. My latest: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/14/o...

It's not a mistake; it's a deliberate deception. The term 𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘵𝘦 was coined specifically to mean hatred of Jews. In case anyone does imagine in all sincerity that "antisemitism" includes hostility to Arabs, there is an easy way to check: Just look the word up in a dictionary.

The online ghouls who are celebrating and/or justifying the shooting of Charlie Kirk have no idea how much damage they are doing…

Most politicians treat scandal as a speed bump. For some it's a badge of honor. A rare few treat it as a turning point. As I write in my Boston Globe column today, the most uncommon kind of political comeback is remorse, humility, change — what Jews call teshuvah. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/10/o...

New at Media Nation: Disability-rights activists oppose physician-assisted suicide. We need to listen to them. dankennedy.net/2025/09/03/d...

OTD in 2008, Barack Obama became the 1st black American nominated for the US presidency by a major party. His GOP opponent, John McCain, released a video to mark the occasion and congratulate Obama. "Truly a good day for America," he said. What a class act he was. www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4KI...

Unlike Sen. Ed Markey, who refuses to retire from Congress even though he's 80, Tip O'Neill had no qualms about stepping down when it was time. How long will voters keep reelecting geriatric lawmakers long past their sell-by date? My new @bostonglobe.com column: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/24/o...

Trump Derangement Syndrome? Look in the mirror, MAGA. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/17/o...

The Toronto International Film Festival is refusing to show a documentary about the Oct. 7 Hamas massacre on the morally insane grounds that the terrorists didn't give filmmakers permission to use the video they took as they committed their atrocities. www.timesofisrael.com/toronto-film...

Exactly 20 years ago, Israel destroyed 21 Jewish communities in Gaza, evicted 9,000 residents, and handed the whole territory to the Palestinians. Israelis believed their withdrawal would pave the way to peace. It paved the way to the horror of Oct. 7. My latest: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/12/o...

Born 100 years ago today. Survived Auschwitz. Immigrated to America. Married and raised a family. Built a life of hard work, humility, and faith. Earned a reputation for integrity and gentleness. Mark Jacoby, my father, my teacher. His memory remains an enduring blessing.

My son was making minimum wage when an activist urged him to sign a petition to 𝙧𝙖𝙞𝙨𝙚 the minimum wage. He declined — and he was right. Time after time, when lawmakers hike the minimum wage, vulnerable workers lose their jobs. My latest for @bostonglobe.com: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/05/o...

To ensure that Jews can live in safety is not only to defend a targeted minority, but to uphold the ideals that made America a light among nations. The US has been blessed because it blessed its Jews. May it never learn what happens if it stops doing so. #TishaBAv www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/29/o...

The scientific marvels of my lifetime — computers, the internet, mapping the genome, heart transplants — are wondrous. But for me, nothing can ever match the audacity of July 20, 1969, when Americans walked on the Moon. The memory still gives me chills. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzAp...

Actually, the only people who say "it takes a village to raise a child" are left-wingers, who are perfectly fine with a welfare state that never stops metastasizing.

One-fourth of Americans regards violent attacks on Jews as "understandable." And most of the other three-fourths couldn't care less. This country is not the safe haven it used to be. Not for Jews, anyway. www.jta.org/2025/07/11/u...

This would be more persuasive if it included even one example of Trump cracking down on right-wing antisemitism. But the only Jew-hatred the WH opposes is the kind found among leftist elites. Which suggests that antisemitism isn't Trump's target; it's his pretext. www.commentary.org/articles/tal...

I love this country. I'm grateful I was born and raised here. I rejoice in all the ways America has made the world better. But am I "proud to be an American?" That question makes no sense, as I write this week in my Arguable newsletter. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/08/o...

Former commander in NYPD's 6th Precinct: "The federal government should prohibit the wearing of masks by ICE agents and require them to properly identify themselves." (& thanks for mention) [Brandon del Pozo, The Atlantic]

It has always been in our national interest to welcome peaceful and grateful foreigners. Bigoted nativists have always recoiled from the prospect of letting too many immigrants in. Clear-eyed patriots know the real danger is in keeping too many of them out. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/06/o...

When Israel-haters like Zohran Mamdani refuse to repudiate slogans like "globalize the intifada," this is what they are endorsing: arson, violence, and the attempted murder of Jews anywhere in the world.

New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s proposed supermarket socialism — government should own grocery stores! — is an idea with a long record of failure. Just ask anyone who grew up behind the Iron Curtain or in Cuba. Here's my new Boston Globe column. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/02/o...

Sometimes the most meaningful prayer is not that the weapons should be silenced but that the righteous should be granted the strength to endure the fight. In a new @globeopinion.bsky.social column, I respond to Pope Leo's claim that "war does not solve problems." www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/25/o...

"It isn’t only Israel that has an overwhelming justification to act against Iran," I write in a new Boston Globe column today. "The United States does, too." The vicious and violent Islamists who rule Iran hate America as much as they hate the Jewish state. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/18/o...

The funeral for Ravid Chaim, the newborn son of Tzeela Gez, a pregnant Israeli woman who was murdered in a terror attack while in labor. Ravid Chaim, just 15 days old, tragically passed away after remaining in serious condition since the attack. May his memory forever be a blessing. 🕯️

"Napalm Girl" is among the most harrowing images of the Vietnam War. But its impact on events and public opinion was almost nonexistent. My new column for is about the famous "Napalm Girl" picture, and the mythology that has grown up around it. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/28/o...

In this post, I build on @bostonglobe.com columnist @jeffjacoby.bsky.social's excellent critique of the "ugly tax" on remittances in Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill": reason.com/volokh/2025/...

As countless Americans were buried on Iwo Jima, a Jewish chaplain delivered a eulogy that would become a Marine Corps legend. "Among these men, there is no discrimination. No prejudices. No hatred. Theirs is the highest and purest democracy." #MemorialDay www.bostonglobe.com/2022/05/29/o...

Freedom isn’t only about political liberties and democracy — it’s also about having abundant economic choices. When Trump says kids should make do with few toys, he's spouting a message that contradicts the American Idea. My new Boston Globe column explains: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/10/o...

Again and again, American history provides painful reminders that not all laws are just and legality is not the same as morality, writes @jeffjacoby.bsky.social. And while the rule of law is deeply rooted in our tradition, so is resistance to bad laws.

The power of cult brainwashing is frightening. In the latest YouGov/Economist survey, 27% of Republican voters agree that Canada is an "unfriendly" or "enemy" country; 29% say so about the European Union. How did the once-great GOP turn into a party of mindless Kool-Aid drinkers?

When this "Palestine Resistance" lapel button was made in 1948, it was to support the Jews of Palestine, who were fighting the Arab onslaught intended to drive them into the sea. Everyone then understood that "Palestine" referred to the Jewish homeland and that "Palestinians" were Jews.

Liberals long insisted that antisemitism was mainly a right-wing phenomenon. Today, left-wing antisemitism is all too obvious and rightly decried by conservatives. But too many of 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 now turn a blind eye to the Jew-haters on their side of the aisle. My latest: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/12/o...

Trump's views on trade and tariffs amount to crackpot economics. To grasp how absurd they are, you need look no further than the wealth of Mar-a-Lago, as I explain in my latest Boston Globe column. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/09/o...

What a disgusting betrayal. The US and Israel voted WITH Russia in the U.N. against a resolution condemning Moscow's invasion of Ukraine. Shame on Trump. Shame on the Republicans who have enabled his corruption of US foreign policy. And shame on Israel for endorsing this vile American perfidy.

Each year for Presidents Day, I write a column about a lesser-known US president. My subject this year: Franklin Pierce, the nation's 14th POTUS. As I discovered while doing my research, there is a striking parallel between Pierce's presidency and Donald Trump's. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/16/o...

I find it sickening when US presidents proclaim their fondness for murderous dictators. I hate hearing Trump talk that way about Xi, just as I hated hearing Carter fawn over Brezhnev and Ceausescu. Before that, Nixon called Mao another George Washington and FDR gushed over Stalin. It's revolting.

I like to think that some Republicans, somewhere, are embarrassed by this. apnews.com/article/trum...

JD Vance, defending Trump’s immigration policies, talks about loving family, neighbors, and community. Really? Does anyone seriously imagine that *love* is the basis of the administration's ferocious assault on even legal immigration? My new Boston Globe column. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/12/o...

Trump's spokesperson says he has been "astoundingly clear” about what he wants tariffs to achieve. Not so. His justifications for tariffs are many and inconsistent. For Trump, tariffs have never been a means to an end; they're an end in themselves. My new column: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/05/o...

"My political views on most issues are far from Budde’s. But I cannot fault her decision ... to gently remind the new president of a teaching as old as the Beatitudes: 'Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.'" @jeffjacoby.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/02/o...

NBC News just confirmed that Trump's arrests are not targeting public safety threats. Only half have any criminal conviction or charge (and many of those are minor offenses, such as traffic or immigration crimes). Most of the media has been scammed by this White House already.

This week, 80 years since the most infamous Nazi extermination camp was liberated, I asked: What was the very worst thing about #Auschwitz? Was it the staggering death toll? The gas chambers? The horrific cruelty? I think it was something else entirely: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/01/28/o...

What was the worst thing about Auschwitz? I explore that question in my Arguable newsletter this week, as we mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the most notorious Nazi death camp. To receive Arguable by email each week, subscribe here for free: www.bostonglobe.com/2022/11/02/o...

Absolutely not! No government-owned or -run facility should ever be named after a living person. www.newsweek.com/republican-p...

After years of affirmative action & racial preferences, the government is at last returning to the principle that drove the Civil Rights movement—the belief that every individual must be treated without regard to race or color. Here's my new Boston Globe column: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/01/26/o...