I have just finished reading one of the most extraordinary books I’ve ever seen, Witness: Lessons from Elie Wiesel’s Classroom, by the incomparable Rabbi Dr. Ariel Burger. The book is replete not only ...

‘Suffering, in Jewish tradition, confers no privileges. It all depends on what one makes of that suffering.” So wrote Elie Wiesel in one of the most compelling of his nearly 50 books, “Messengers of ...

Enduring the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps, or even just contemplating them, destroyed religious belief for many Jews. “Never shall I forget those flames that consumed my faith forever,” ...

How do you tell a story that everyone knows? Oren Rudavsky, in the opening scenes of his recently released documentary Elie ...

The film’s premiere on Holocaust Remembrance Day is part of Honoring Our Stories: Jewish Culture and Remembering the Holocaust initiative beginning January 26. As a professor at Boston University over ...

The prize -- established in collaboration with the Podwal family and inspired by the deep creative partnership between Mark Podwal, one of America's most distinguished Jewish artists, and Nobel ...

Today, only a few dozen Jews live in Sighet, Romania, a small town on the southern bank of the Tisza River, which separates Romania from Ukraine to the north. But this was not always so. In 1944, ...

When Elisha Wiesel, son of Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel, addressed the United Nations over video on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, he reminded the world’s largest diplomatic body of three ...