This article initially appeared in My Jewish Learning’s Shabbat newsletter Recharge. To sign up to receive Recharge each week in your inbox, click here. (JTA) — It was August 1966, the summer before ...

Last week, I went back and listened to a 1992 commencement address by Elie Wiesel. I had attended the ceremony as a reporter, and later aired the speech in full on a radio program I produced in New ...

Was a human rights advocate, speaking out about Bosnian ethnic cleansing, Cambodian refugees, and South African apartheid. Wiesel’s mother and youngest sister died at Auschwitz. His two older sisters ...

Abraham Foxman was not surprised by his friend Elie Wiesel’s death, but he found the sense of loss inescapable. It wasn’t just the loss of a friend, someone with whom he could share memories of lost ...

The world recently lost an amazing man (among many great losses this year), who has influenced the lives of many. I never thought an old Jewish man would be so influential to this Muslim woman’s life, ...

2007-05-09 12:17:00 PDT SAN FRANCISCO-- Nobel prize-winning author Elie Wiesel, speaking in San Francisco amid tight security today for the first time since he was assaulted by a Holocaust denier, ...

Learn about Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize-winning author of Night. Learn about Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize-winning author of Night. After his ...

It was August 1966, the summer before my senior year of high school, and I was attending a Reform movement summer camp in Wisconsin when Elie Wiesel came for a visit. Wiesel’s “Night,” a spare, ...