By Stanley Tiger SAN DIEGO–How does one mourn the passing of a prophet? Elie Wiesel was as close to a prophet as we can get in the modern world. It was not so much the winning of the Nobel Peace Prize that impressed me. It certainly put him on the map and made him a […]
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Jewish History, Obituaries & memorialsPresident Andrzej Duda on Monday pledged to fight racism and anti-Semitism 70 years after dozens of Polish Holocaust survivors were massacred in a brutal pogrom. “It’s the army and militia that opened fire first” on the Jewish inhabitants of the southern city of Kielce, Duda said during ceremonies marking the anniversary. He described the communist
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International, Jewish HistoryThe great French writer Victor Hugo once said that “adversity makes men.” There is no one in the history of humanity for whom this is more true than the late great Elie Wiesel. The world has lost one of its premier moral voices. His early life was fashioned in darkness, but he brought light to
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International, Jewish HistoryMiyuki Kita, an American Studies professor at the University of Kitakyushu in southern Japan, has focused her entire academic career on Jewish political activism in the United States. Her town has no Jewish community. “Japanese students know only Martin Luther King, Jr., and regard him as the only hero of the civil rights movement,” said
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International, Jewish History, USABy Rabbi Ben Kamin OCEANSIDE, California — We met more than once and even exchanged some letters in handwritten Hebrew. This was because he was eminently approachable and unimpressed with his fame. But it was our very first encounter that immediately came to mind when the news came of the death of Elie Wiesel—the poet
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International, Jewish HistoryPresident Barack Obama on Saturday night expressed his condolences over the passing of Holocaust survivor and author Elie Wiesel, who was a close friend of Obama’s and who died earlier in the day at the age of 87. Wiesel, said Obama in a statement, “was one of the great moral voices of our time, and
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International, Jewish History, USATributes have been pouring in since news broke of the passing of world-renowned Holocaust survivor, writer, activist and Nobel Prize laureate Elie Wiesel on Saturday. Among those paying their respects were Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin, who spoke of his immense sadness over Wiesel’s death, who he dubbed “a giant of humanity.” “Tonight we bid farewell
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International, Jewish History, Middle EastAuthor and humanitarian Elie Wiesel, who died Saturday at age 87, won the Noble Peace Prize in 1986 in recognition as “one of the most important spiritual leaders and guides in an age when violence, repression and racism continue to characterize the world.” Below is Wiesel’s full acceptance speech upon receiving the award, according to
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Jewish HistoryElie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor whose book Night became an important part of school curricula and was read by countless young people, died Saturday at 87, according to Haaretz.com. “My goal is to sensitize the desensitized, world leaders first among them,” Wiesel told Newsweek in 2008. Wiesel was absent from an event on May 5
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Jewish History, Obituaries & memorialsPHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (Press Release) – The National Museum of American Jewish History (NMAJH) is a uniquely relevant destination for those visiting Philadelphia for the DNC. The Museum will be open every day the week of July 25 and will offer free admission to convention volunteers and 2-for-1 admission to convention attendees. Starting on June 28,
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Jewish History, USANEW YORK (WJC)- World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder said this week that he is dismayed by an investigation alleging that the German state of Bavaria had sold or given Nazi-looted art to high-ranking Nazi officials, rather than returning the art to its rightful Jewish heirs. The investigation by the London-based Commission for Looted
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International, Jewish History, Music, Dance, and Visual ArtsA US publisher of Adolf Hitler”s Nazi manifesto announced its decision to donate all proceeds to a local organization that works directly with aging Holocaust survivors, according to a Boston Globe report. The move comes after Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, a Boston-based publisher of one of the English translations of “Mein Kampf”, recently received criticism for
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, International, Jewish History, USAPalestinian terrorist kills 13-year-old Israeli girl in her bedroom (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) A Palestinian terrorist murdered a 13-year-old Israeli girl in her bedroom on Thursday after infiltrating the Jewish community of Kiryat Arba in Samaria. The terrorist broke into the home of Hallel Yaffa Ariel and stabbed her, wounding her critically. She was
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Jewish History, Middle EastBy Joel H. Cohen Jacob had an urgent, primal need To disperse his patriarchal seed. But doubted his wives’ ability When it came to their fertility. So Leah and Rachel deemed it fine For him to engage a concubine. If one is good, two are surely great, Jacob thought, to help him procreate. So effective
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