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Posts Tagged: Elie Wiesel

May 1, 2024 5:00 pm
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University Presidents From US, Canada Set to Participate in Auschwitz Event Amid Surging Campus Antisemitism

University presidents from the US and Canada are set to gather at Auschwitz, the infamous Nazi concentration camp in Poland, to commemorate the Holocaust amid...

June 7, 2023 10:03 am
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UK Paper’s Book Review Attacks Elie Wiesel for Supporting Israel

A review of a new book in the UK's The Telegraph tried to attack the late Elie Wiesel for supporting Israel. “Joseph Berger’s judicious and well-crafted...

October 28, 2021 12:19 pm
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William Barber Distances Himself From Anti-Zionism at Lecture Honoring Elie Wiesel

On Wednesday, October 27, Rev. Dr. William Barber II, gave a lecture in honor of Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel. During his lecture, which was sponsored...

March 18, 2021 11:09 am
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Ethnic Studies, the Third World Liberation Front and My Grandmother

JNS.org - In 1979, my grandmother, Tsilya Reitburd-Mendzheritsky, was taken to a Soviet prison in Dmitrov, a small town about an hour from her home...

July 3, 2020 12:38 pm
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Son Pays Poetic Tribute to Jewish Literary Giant Elie Wiesel on Anniversary of Death

The son of Elie Wiesel -- the Holocaust survivor, literary giant and human rights advocate who passed away in July 2016 -- has paid a...

January 29, 2020 10:03 am
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Elie Wiesel’s Son Talks About Life With Famed Holocaust Survivor and Nobel Laureate

JNS.org - Elisha Wiesel, the son and only child of the late Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel, spoke to the New...

October 30, 2019 6:49 am
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Jewish Survival: Making Music With What Remains

The great Jewish historian Salo Baron objected to the "lachrymose" version of Jewish history -- the overemphasis on Jewish suffering. Instead, Jewish history should be...

May 20, 2019 6:51 am
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75 Years Since Elie Wiesel Was Sent to Auschwitz

Seventy-five years ago this week, Elie Wiesel was deported from Sighet, Romania -- a small town in the Carpathian mountains -- at the age of...

January 15, 2019 3:54 pm
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Elie Wiesel’s Family Welcomes Signing of Anti-Genocide Act Named After Late Nobel Laureate

The signing on Monday of the Elie Wiesel Genocide and Atrocities Prevention Act by President Donald Trump was welcomed by the late Holocaust survivor and...

October 30, 2018 3:52 pm
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Is America Any Different When It Comes to Antisemitism?

On November 9th, communities around the world will mark the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the infamous antisemitic pogrom that symbolized the acceleration of Hitler’s murderous campaign...

October 29, 2018 10:09 pm
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How to Respond to the Unspeakable Tragedy in Pittsburgh

Adapted from remarks delivered at Ansche Chesed community vigil on New York's Upper West Side on Oct 27th, 2018.  How to respond to unspeakable tragedy? Even an...

October 3, 2018 8:21 am
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Marking Elie Wiesel’s 90th Birthday

I spent my life loving Elie Wiesel, and had the honor and pleasure of knowing him, learning from him, and working with him. I now...

August 8, 2018 12:23 pm
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Curator of Elie Wiesel Museum Welcomes Global Outpouring of Support, as Romanian Police Arrest Vandalism Suspect

In the wake of this past weekend’s vandalism incident at the childhood home of the late Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel in Romania,...

August 5, 2018 12:14 pm
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Son of Elie Wiesel Responds to Antisemitic Graffiti on Father’s House: ‘Holocaust Memory and Jews Are Under Attack’

The only child of the late Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel has responded to the antisemitic desecration of his father's childhood home in northwestern...

World

Top Teachers Union Votes to End Alliance with ADL Over Israel Support

On Sunday, the National Education Association (NEA) voted to cease its relationship with the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), citing the latter’s defense of the Jewish state. The policymaking, 7,000-member assembly of the...

Israel

‘Transparently Antisemitic’: Google Founder Sergey Brin Blasts...

Google cofounder Sergey Brin criticized the United Nations in a company forum, calling it “transparently antisemitic” after the release of...

Middle East

US Clamps Sanctions on Israel-bashing UN Rights Monitor Albanese

The Trump administration has imposed sanctions against Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur for the Occupied Palestinian Territories, citing the UN official’s lengthy record of singling out Israel for...

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