Jeff Jacoby (columnist)
Jeffrey Jacoby (born February 10, 1959) is an American conservative journalist and syndicated newspaper columnist.
Jeff Jacoby
Journalist
Op-ed column
Early life and education[edit]
Born in Cleveland, Ohio, United States, to a Jewish family, Jacoby received a B.A. degree with honors from The George Washington University and a J.D. degree from the Boston University School of Law. His father, a Holocaust survivor, was born in present-day Slovakia in 1925 and came to the United States in 1948.
Personal life[edit]
Jacoby and his wife, Laura Weller, have two sons, Caleb (born 1997) and Micah (born 2003); Micah was born in Guatemala and adopted by the Jacoby family in 2004.[15] They live in Brookline Village, Brookline, Massachusetts.[16] On January 6, 2014, Caleb, a student at the Maimonides School, was reported missing.[16] Three days later, he was found safe in Times Square in New York City.[17] Brookline police later announced that Caleb had run away from home of his own volition.[18][19] Jacoby wrote a column about the community's response in the Boston Globe.[20]