Jeff Jacoby ✓

@Jeff_Jacoby · Boston, Massachusetts · joined 29 Jun 2009

I'm an op-ed columnist at The Boston Globe, a purveyor of refreshing conservative cheer in the midst of a dusty liberal wilderness.

29 816Followers

1 118Following

28 897Posts total

66.3KViews on collected posts

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Jeff Jacoby ✓@Jeff_Jacoby22 Jul

In 2018 I took my father, z"l, from his home in Bet Shemesh to the Kotel in Jerusalem. At 93, he was weak, ill, and in a wheelchair. I wanted him to have one last chance to daven at the ancient wall—and to be with him when he did. I think of my father on this Tisha B'Av and http

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Jeff Jacoby ✓@Jeff_Jacoby25 May

Nearly 7,000 Marines died in the fighting on Iwo Jima. But when the time came to bury the dead and a Jewish chaplain, Rabbi Roland Gittelsohn, was asked by his commander to deliver a eulogy them, most of his Christian colleagues refused to attend. Nonetheless, the sermon they 17.2K views · 397 likes · 95 reposts · 9 replies Open on X →

Jeff Jacoby ✓@Jeff_Jacoby20 May

>מִתְהַלֵּ֣ךְ בְּתֻמּ֣וֹ צַדִּ֑יק אַשְׁרֵ֖י בָנָ֣יו אַחֲרָֽיו׃< The righteous man lives with integrity; happy are the children who follow him (Proverbs 20:7) How blessed I was to have been raised by such a father. If only I managed to walk more nearly in his ways. https://t.co

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Jeff Jacoby ✓@Jeff_Jacoby15 May

@Jeff_Jacoby https://t.co/nfh4T8PgmR

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Jeff Jacoby ✓@Jeff_Jacoby15 May

@Jeff_Jacoby @Vapi472011 You should book Mark this because it is the only recording of this event and is so so precious 196 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Jeff Jacoby ✓@Jeff_Jacoby15 May

@Jeff_Jacoby The best one is Golda Mabovitz. Born in Ukraine. Grew up in Wisconsin. Flew to the other side of the planet to murder families living in Palestine for thousands of years. https://t.co/YBoHTac3Hq

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Jeff Jacoby ✓@Jeff_Jacoby15 May

Days after Bergen Belsen was liberated in 1945, Jewish survivors sang "Hatikvah" — the haunting anthem of faith that Jews would, despite everything, recover their homeland of Zion. Three years later, the first Jewish state in 19 centuries was proclaimed in Jerusalem. Jews can

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Jeff Jacoby ✓@Jeff_Jacoby6 May

Thomas Sowell is a great scholar, but he's deeply misguided if he thinks Jew-hatred is linked to economic success. Jews have always been demonized, persecuted, and murdered — when they were rich and when they were poor, when they were strong and when they were weak, when they 11.8K views · 99 likes · 14 reposts · 17 replies Open on X →

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1 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown far beyond its own audience, and the audience reacts.

Median views11 735this account924median for 10K–100K

Reach, %39.36%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %4.35%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	11 735	924	12.7×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	39.36%	3.62%	10.9×
Engagement rate	4.35%	1.52%	2.86×

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How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

11.8K6 May

24K15 May

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1K20 May

17.2K25 May

11.7K22 Jul

Last 8 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

1.13%6 May

4.48%15 May

1.67%

1.02%

2.67%

1.83%20 May

2.93%25 May

4.35%22 Jul

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.

What the audience does

Likes73.8%1 868 in total

Reposts12.1%307 in total

Replies2.4%61 in total

Quotes0.6%15 in total

Bookmarks11.1%280 in total

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