Jeff Jacoby :: Writings

FOR MUCH of the twentieth century, traditional Judaism in America appeared to be a hopeless cause.

NOW THAT it has happened to us, the White House is not calling for "restraint."

AS SOME of you know, I am on medical leave from my job at The Boston Globe and have not been able to write my regular op-ed columns or my Arguable newsletter.

(This column is excerpted from an essay in Arguable, my weekly newsletter.

ANYONE WHO spends time with me knows me knows how much I despise litter.

WHEN FORMER FBI director Robert Mueller died last week at 81, President Trump marked the occasion with his customary grace.

THE SUPREME Court will hear oral arguments next week in Trump v.

HOW FORTUNATE Massachusetts is to have Bill Galvin!

WHEN MY son Micah was 8, he and I listened repeatedly to "Stan Freberg Presents the United States of America," a classic 1961 send-up of American history.

WHEN Charles Thomson was directed by the Continental Congress in 1782 to finalize the design for the Great Seal of the United States, he approached the task with the seriousness it deserved.

IN BOSTON'S federal courthouse next week, US District Judge William Young will take up Equal Means Equal v.

"MUSLIMS DON'T belong in American society," Representative Andy Ogles, a Tennessee Republican, posted on X on Monday.

Few New England sports fans need to be told that attending a big game has become expensive.

THE MASSACHUSETTS Constitution was amended in 1919 to give citizens the right to change their laws through the initiative and referendum process.

"WITH HIS spectacles, Palestinian kaffiyeh, long robes, and silver beard, Ayatollah Khamenei cast himself as a religious scholar as well as a writer and translator of works on Islam.

I first encountered Dennis Prager's ideas on ethics, religion, and current events in the late 1980s, when I subscribed to his quarterly newsletter "Ultimate Issues."