Elie Wiesel on Boston’s bombs: send in the philosophers

By Jonah Lowenfeld
Published on April 16, 2013

How the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum changed my life

By Michael Berenbaum
Published on April 3, 2013

My daughter, Ilana, then a young college student, asked if she could go with me to the opening of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, on April 22, 1993 (the date was tied to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising’s 50th anniversary). I said: “I will be leaving very early.” She responded: “I’ll be up.”

Elie Wiesel and questions of God and duty

Published on February 15, 2013

The madness always calls him back. You only have to glance at Elie Wiesel’s tortured face to know that he is always at risk. Even after the countless novels and the Nobel Peace Prize.

Ashton Rosin: Bearing witness on campus

By Danielle Berrin
Published on January 3, 2013

When author and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel was recently asked if he feared future generations might forget the Holocaust once the last surviving witnesses had perished, he answered that he had quelled his anxiety over this problem with a simple dictum: “To listen to a witness,” he said, “is to become one.”

Elie Wiesel on Oprah Dec. 9: Sneak peak Q & A [VIDEO]

By Naomi Pfefferman
Published on December 8, 2012

Attracting Gen Y at GA

Published on November 13, 2012

A dozen officials from The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles flew to Baltimore this week to attend the annual conference of the national body representing 155 federations, where they discussed many of the urgent challenges confronting American and Canadian Jewry.

Report: Wiesel, Obama not writing book

Published on November 13, 2012

Elie Wiesel and President Obama are not writing a book together, as reported by an Israeli newspaper.

Wiesel says he and Obama are teaming for book

Published on November 5, 2012

Elie Wiesel and President Obama are writing a book together, the Holocaust survivor and author told an Israeli newspaper.

Wiesel, Jewish leaders rap changes to Canada’s refugee policy

Published on July 9, 2012

Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel joined a growing list of Jewish leaders who are calling on Canada to reverse changes to legislation that denies health care to refugee claimants.

Wiesel raps Hungary Nazi past ‘whitewash’

Published on June 19, 2012

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel has renounced a Hungarian state award he received in 2004 in protest against what he said was a "whitewashing" of the role of former Hungarian governments in the deportation of Jews during World War Two.

Elie Wiesel honored by U.S.’ largest pro bono law firm

By Tom Tugend
Published on April 25, 2012

Germany started its long descent into brutality and murder when the Nazi regime began to corrupt the nation’s laws, Elie Wiesel told more than a thousand guests, predominantly lawyers, on April 22 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.

March 21, 2012

By Shmuel Rosner
Published on March 21, 2012

Wiesel: Romney should speak out about proxy baptisms

Published on February 15, 2012

Holocaust survivor and author Elie Wiesel said Mitt Romney should speak up about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' practice of posthumous baptisms. In an interview with the Huffington Post, Wiesel said that Romney, the front-runner in the race for the Republican presidential nod, should tell his church to “stop” performing posthumous proxy baptisms of Holocaust victims.

Bridge to empathy

By Rob Eshman
Published on January 25, 2012

If you like your satire dark, I mean jet black, you probably love the scene from episode four, season four of “Weeds,” in which Len Botwin, played by Albert Brooks, gives a history lesson to his young nephew Shane.

Wiesel, Kent among 5 appointees to Holocaust council

Published on October 31, 2011

Holocaust survivors Elie Wiesel and Roman Kent, and Rwanda genocide survivor Clemantine Wamariya are among the five appointees to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council.

Krista Tippett teeters with religion and politics

By Book Buzz
Published on October 22, 2008

Briefs: Obama condemns pastor’s politics, Merkel addresses Knesset

Published on March 20, 2008

News briefs.

Briefs: Livini says no talks with Hamas; GOP says 'shalom' to Karl Rove; Kosher slaughterhouse accused of lax Mad Cow precautions

Published on August 16, 2007

News briefs.

Briefs: Now Olmert wants to talk; Hamas loots Arafat's abode; Syria invites Israelis in Golan to stay -- under Syria

Published on June 21, 2007

News briefs.

Briefs: Israel reviews Jerusalem dig; U.S. offers reward for Islamic Jihad leader

Published on February 15, 2007

Briefs

A privilege to share

By Susan Freudenheim
Published on February 8, 2007

"I do not think that the Holocaust can be forgotten," Elie Wiesel said. "It is the most recorded event in history. But I am afraid it will lose its uniqueness. I'm afraid it could be cheapened, diminished, trivialized."

Nation & World Briefs

By Tom Tugend
Published on January 19, 2006

World

Meant to Be

By Rob Eshman
Published on December 25, 2003

Earlier this year, two remarkable authors came to town and changed the way I thought about being Jewish.