Jewish Activists Concerned Ahead Of UNESCO Vote Sep 18, 2009
Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel, French philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy and filmmaker Claude Lanzmann wrote a protest letter listing comments they took issue with, including Hosni's 2001 description of Israeli culture as "inhumane" and "racist.". Yet Hosni has convinced at least one influential Jewish activist of his sincerity _ Nazi hunter Serge Klarsfeld. (CBS News -- World)
Israel row hits Unesco race Sep 8, 2009
Opposition to Mr Hosny's candidature comes from Auschwitz survivor Elie Wiesel as well as prominent Jewish intellectuals Bernard-Henri Levy and Claude Lanzmann ... Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel has led protests against Hosny's candidature. (BBC News -- Africa)
Harvard men populate McDonell thriller ‘An Expensive Education’ Aug 23, 2009
RASHIBy Elie Wiesel Translated, from the French, by Catherine Temerson Schocken, 128 pp ... What Nobel Prize laureate Elie Wiesel, Mellon professor in the humanities at Boston University, recognizes in this long-ago scholar is essentially a fellow humanities professor ... RASHI By Elie WieselTranslated, from the French, by Catherine Temerson. (Boston Globe)
Purposes for Feedback on Student Wo... Aug 22, 2009
Student: I just finished reading Night, by Elie Wiesel ... Student: I just finished reading Night, by Elie Wiesel. (Suite101.com)
Presidents Awarded the Nobel Peace ... Aug 19, 2009
Since then, the prize has gone to statesmen, writers, organizations, and those who strove to make a better world, like Elie Wiesel, Mother Teresa, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Three American presidents were awarded the Peace Prize for their efforts at building a framework for peace either globally or in specific conflict situations. Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and Jimmy Carter received the singular honor. (Suite101.com)
Book signing to be homecoming for new author (2) Aug 18, 2009
Elie Wiesel concurred, writing in the book jacket that The Last Ember represents a much needed literary protest against modern and ancient historical revisionism. Levin developed the idea for the book after graduating from Harvard Law School, where he received an appointment as clerk for Israel s Supreme Court. (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)
Timothy Black profiles three Puerto Rican brothers in ‘When a Heart Turns Rock Solid’ Aug 9, 2009
Rashi, by Elie Wiesel (Schocken). Pick of the week Mary Cotton of Newtonville Books in Newton recommends The Magicians by Lev Grossman (Viking): Quentin Coldwater is an awkward, bookish teen who finds himself unexpectedly admitted to a secretive school of magic for a rigorous education in modern wizardry. (Boston Globe)
Bernie Madoff — Publisher's Best Friend? Aug 8, 2009
4 billion from a veritable Who's Who of Jewish New York, including Holocaust survivor and Nobel Prize winner Elie Wiesel and Yeshiva University. "You were nothing more than a glorified mailbox," one of Merkin's investors fumed. (Time.com)
People power Aug 1, 2009
Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986 (she lost to Elie Wiesel) she subsequently received a number of awards and citations for championing democracy and human rights. Bookmark with. (BBC News)
‘Clara’s War’ tells of a Jewish girl surviving the Holocaust in Poland Jul 29, 2009
Clara s War, a true account of a Jewish family hidden in Poland during World War II, has neither the charm of Anne Frank s diary, nor the gravitas of Elie Wiesel s novels, nor the penetrating prose of Primo Levi s memoirs. But it is a book that must be read. (Boston Globe)
Seymour Yesner, educator in Brookline, WWII veteran Jul 29, 2009
When a colleague invited him to discuss his World War II experiences with a class reading Night by Elie Wiesel, Mr. Yesner told his stories, but was clearly so saddened by his recollections that the teacher never broached the subject again. He was a political junkie, his wife said, and his war experience helped harden his antiwar stance. (Boston Globe)
Salman Rushie to speak at NH humanities dinner Jul 22, 2009
Past speakers include Ken Burns, Elie Wiesel, Desmond Tutu and Tom Brokaw. The New Hampshire Humanities Council is a nonprofit group that develops and sponsors free public programs such as book discussions and workshops on literature, history, languages, ethics and the arts. (Concord Monitor)
Gathering My Thoughts Jul 11, 2009
To me, that makes about as much sense as saying I should respect the Nobel Prize because, after all, over the years it has gone to the distinguished likes of Albert Einstein, Elie Wiesel, Enrico Fermi, George Bernard Shaw, Rudyard Kipling, John Steinbeck and Milton Friedman. On the other hand, not only didnt Jonas Salk, Maurice Hillman or Mark Twain, win one, but Jimmy Carter, Le Duc Tho, Al Gore and Yasser Arafat did. (Townhall.com)
History repeated, renewed Jun 25, 2009
" on the venerable amphitheater stage. Last year's collaboration with the National Geographic Society was so well received that during Week Two (July 6-10), National Geographic explorers, filmmakers, scientists, and photographers return with reports from the frontlines of planetary change. The past has always been alive in the streets and byways of the institution, so it makes sense that Colonial Williamsburg joins with Chautauqua to present Week Nine (Aug. 24-28) on "The History of Liberty," as... (Erie Times-News, PA)
Review - A Lucky Child by Thomas Bu... Jun 25, 2009
In his foreword to A Lucky Child, Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel discusses how while each testimony of the Holocaust can seem to tell the same story, each is individual. He notes that Buergenthal s voice of the future world court judge strikes us by its need to seek out strains of humanity, even in the very depths of hell. (Suite101.com)
Celebrity birthday wishes for Aung San Suu Kyi Jun 19, 2009
(signed by dozens including George Clooney, Drew Barrymore, David Beckham, Bono, Matthew Broderick, Sandra Bullock, James Carville, Daniel Craig, John Cusack, Matt Damon, Robert De Niro, Jake Gyllenhaal, Vaclav Havel, Helen Hunt, Anjelica Huston, Scarlett Johansson, Nicole Kidman, Ashton Kutcher, Norman Lear, Madonna, Mary Matalin, Sarah Jessica Parker, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, Meg Ryan, George Soros, Steven Spielberg, Meryl Streep, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Naomi Watts, Elie Wiesel, Owen... (Fresno Bee -- Local)
From letters the students wrote to Elie Wiesel Jun 16, 2009
Monday, June 8, 2009 5:39 PM CDT. One of the greatest things that (I) admire you for is that you never gave up. (Racine Journal Times, WI)
Obama: Buchenwald 'rebuke' to Holocaust denial Jun 6, 2009
The young man seventh from left in the middle row bunk is Elie Wiesel, who would later become an author and Nobel Peace Prize laureate ... He toured the remains of the hillside compound with Chancellor Angela Merkel and Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel, who was once a starving teenager in the camp. (Muscatine Journal, IO)
Obama Continues World Tour Jun 6, 2009
Accompanying Obama to the site was Elie Wiesel, a 1986 Nobel Peace Prize winner, author and Holocaust survivor. Following the tour, Obama was flying to Landstuhl medical hospital for private visits with U.S. troops recovering from wounds sustained in Iraq and Afghanistan. (WTVR.com, VA)
Obama "Will Not Forget" Concentration Camp Jun 6, 2009
The president was accompanied on his solemn visit by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel. Wiesel was a teenage prisoner at this camp, which claimed the life of his father, 64 years ago. (CBS News)
In Dresden, Obama highlights capacity for reconstruction Jun 6, 2009
He called the camp the "ultimate rebuke" to Holocaust-deniers, and toured the site with Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, who was imprisoned at Buchenwald and whose father died there. Obama challenged Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has repeatedly questioned the Holocaust, to visit. (Christian Science Monitor)
AP: Obama Calls for New Effort for 2-state Solution Jun 6, 2009
Accompanying Obama: Merkel, Elie Wiesel, a 1986 Nobel Peace Prize winner, author and Holocaust survivor whose father died of starvation at Buchenwald three months before liberation, and Bertrand Herz, also a Buchenwald survivor. Each laid a long-stemmed white rose at a memorial. (Missourian Publishing, MO)
• Burley says new chicken plant will bring 1,000 jobs to area Jun 6, 2009
Pingree quoted Winston Churchill and Walt Whitman, and dropped the names of Reagan and Elie Wiesel at Fridays meeting. He showed graphs that demonstrated the drastic increase in poultry produced in America since 1955 and how, compared to other meats, poultry is relatively inexpensive. (Burley South Idaho Press, ID)
Obama to pay tribute to D-Day fallen, meet Sarkozy Jun 6, 2009
With him are German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Holocaust survivors Elie Wiesel and Bertrand Herz, and Volkhard Knigge, head of Buchenwald Memorial ... The young man seventh from left in the middle row bunk is Elie Wiesel, who would later become an author and Nobel Peace Prize laureate ... US President Barack Obama, left, and Buchenwald survivor Elie Wiesel, right, react at the memorial site for the 'Kleines Lager' (Little Camp) inside Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar, Germany, Friday,... (North County Times)
* Israeli book-burning row clouds Egypts bid for UNESCO job May 30, 2009
But last week three prominent French intellectuals X Nobel Peace Price laureate Elie Wiesel, philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy, and filmmaker Claude Lanzmann called for his candidacy to be blocked. Hosni, who is also an artist, was a dangerous man, the opposite of a man of peace, they wrote in an opinion piece in Le Monde newspaper. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
UN cultural hopeful in book burning row May 29, 2009
Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel has led protests against Hosny's candidature ... An open letter by prominent Jewish intellectuals Claude Lanzmann, Bernard-Henri Levy and Elie Wiesel protested against Mr Hosny's candidature in the strongest terms. (BBC News -- Africa)
Singletary: Literary world charts Madoff’s destruction May 2, 2009
With great speed, publishers will turn out books by financial reporters and historians analyzing Madoff and his methods in conning a great many people and institutions, including a senator, major financial companies, universities, Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel, movie stars, and the charity established by movie director Steven Spielberg. In Catastrophe: The Story of Bernard L. Madoff, The Man Who Swindled the World (Phoenix Books. (Green Valley News & Sun, AZ)
The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas review Apr 28, 2009
Nobel prize-winning writer Elie Wiesel, who survived both Auschwitz and Buchenwald, is said to believe that only those who were there can write about it. That would mean that Irish children's writer John Boyne should never have put pen to paper, because he was born in 1971. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Chicago-area Holocaust museum opens Apr 20, 2009
Other speakers at Sundays opening included writer and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, U.S. Sen. Roland Burris and Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn. (The Pantagraph newspaper)
Thousands attend Holocaust museum opening in Ill. town that protested neo-Nazis Apr 20, 2009
Other speakers included writer and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel; Senator Roland Burris and Governor Pat Quinn of Illinois; and President Obama, who spoke via a video statement. Copyright 2009 Globe Newspaper Company. (Boston Globe)
Clinton to speak at Holocaust museum opening Apr 19, 2009
Holocaust survivor and writer Elie Wiesel is also expected to attend. Museum organizers say the mission of the museum is to help survivors heal, educate people and ensure another Holocaust does not occur again. (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
WNET.ORG's 16th Annual Gala Salute to Honor Author and Civic Leader Meredith Brokaw, JPMorgan Chase & Co. Chairman And CEO Jamie Dimon, and Academy Award-Winning Actor Kevin Kline Apr 15, 2009
Past honorees who are invited to attend the 2009 Gala include Alan Alda, Julie Andrews, William F. Baker, Antonio Banderas, Tony Bennett, Michael R. Bloomberg, Tom Brokaw, Ken Burns, Ric Burns, Joan Ganz Cooney, Walter Cronkite, Lewis Cullman, Oscar de la Renta, Charles F. Dolan, Plcido Domingo, William J. Flynn, Albert R. Gamper, Jr., Henry Louis Gates, Jr., William B. Harrison, Jr., The Henson Family, Charlayne Hunter-Gault, Gwen Ifill, Henry R. Kravis, Yo-Yo Ma, Robert MacNeil, Peter... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Highs and lows in Wiesel's 'Mad Desire' Mar 25, 2009
"A Mad Desire to Dance," by celebrated writer, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, would have benefited from the deletion of many scenes: for example, the passages in which Doriel is recruited to work for the Mossad (he turns them down) and the character Laurent's recollections of his experiences in the French Resistance ... A MAD DESIRE TO DANCE By Elie Wiesel. (Boston Globe)
Howie Mandel comes to Fort Washington Mar 23, 2009
In the past, Temple Sinai has hosted big names like writer Elie Wiesel, comedian Jackie Mason and media personality Barbara Walters. "We try to bring in somebody that not only would be interesting for our own temple but for the community at large," Friedrich said. (Ft. Washington Montgomery Newspapers, PA)
Retired judge takes up convict LaGuer's cause Mar 20, 2009
Since Benjamin LaGuer was convicted 25 years ago of committing a horrific rape, many luminaries have questioned whether it was a miscarriage of justice, including Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel, former Boston University president John Silber, and Governor Deval Patrick. Now the 45-year-old prison inmate has a new lawyer taking up his cause, one who says he knows all too well the fallibility of the criminal justice system: retired Superior Court Judge Isaac Borenstein. (Boston Globe)
Bernie Madoff's billionaire victims Mar 18, 2009
Nobel Peace Prize recipient and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel is another who has been vocal about Madoff's betrayal, reportedly referring to him as "a crook" and "evil." In a statement in December, the nonprofit Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity admitted to having "$15.2 million under management with Bernard Madoff Investment Securities" - an amount that represented substantially all of the foundation's assets. Not named directly in the February bankruptcy filing: real estate billionaire Mort... (International Herald Tribune -- Business)
Tax relief to Madoff investment victims Mar 18, 2009
The plan is the first time that the I.R.S. has come forward with a policy regarding how it will treat victims of the Madoff fraud, who include the Nobel peace laureate Elie Wiesel and a foundation that he heads; the filmmaker Steven Spielberg; the actor John Malkovich; and many individuals and charitable foundations. Related Articles. (International Herald Tribune -- Business)
Alice Waters' Crusade For Better Food Mar 17, 2009
The others were Martin Luther King Jr., Mother Teresa, Nelson Mandela and Elie Wiesel. It has been estimated that Borlaug's contribution to agriculture though gene manipulation (a no-no to the high priests of organic agriculture) and use of inorganic fertilizer have improved crop yields, resulting in saving the lives of one billion human beings. (CBS News)
Search for Madoff money, cohorts intensifies Mar 14, 2009
Those cheated included Nobel Peace Prize winner and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel. (). (Globe and Mail -- Business)
'Sorry and ashamed' Madoff pleads guilty Mar 13, 2009
Those cheated included Nobel Peace Prize winner and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel. How scheme started. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Business)
MADOFF PLEA: GUILTY... Mar 13, 2009
Victims big and small were swindled by Madoff, from elderly Florida retirees to actors Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick and Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel. . (The Drudge Report)
BusinessWeek: Whats a just punishment? Mar 13, 2009
Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel, who saw his life savings vanish and whose charity lost $15 million as a result of the Ponzi scheme, recently told The New York Times that he wished Madoff would be confined to a solitary cell and forced to watch a continuous video of his victims for five years. Others have called, quite literally, for Madoff's head. (MSNBC -- Business)
Virtual classroom links students in Mesa, Israel Mar 9, 2009
Through a virtual classroom in their Dobson High School computer lab, seniors who have been studying the novel-memoir "Night" by Elie Wiesel recently had the opportunity to be peppered with questions from Israeli students about the Holocaust. Dobson senior Kessalee Lansbery answered a question from Lilit Yonikeon, a high-school student in Haifa, Israel, 7,375 miles away. (AZCentral -- News)
- Voice: Improve lives of all the people (40) Mar 9, 2009
92231 wrote on Mar 8, 2009 1:04 PM:" Tobybaron: You need to read "Angela's Ashes" by Frank McCourt - his memoir on coming to the United States. What an eye opener on the bigotry of our country - they hated the Irish, Black, Mexican, Scottish, German, anyone that was not like them. This book would go hand in hand with 'The Generation After' by Elie Wiesel who predicted how quickly society and the generation after of Jews would forget what happened in the holocaust. Just ask Jonah Goldberg about... (El Centro Imperial Valley Press, CA)
Making Sense of the Credit Debacle Mar 3, 2009
Pitt sat on the panel with Jim Chanos, the noted short-seller, and Elie Wiesel, a Madoff victim. Chanos said that an under-covered aspect of this meltdown has been "criminality in executive suites," charging that big banks and Wall Street firms had been lying about the state of their books while raising money in the capital markets. (Slate)
LETTERS: The Californian, March 3, 2009 Mar 3, 2009
""And I heard a voice within me answer him: 'Where is He. Here He is ---- He is hanging here on this gallows. (North County Times)
Disney sets out to make 'The Passion for kids' Mar 1, 2009
Bernard Madoff should be locked up and forced to look at pictures of his alleged victims, Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel has said. The Vatican said on Friday that the apology issued by an ultraconservative bishop who denied the Holocaust was not good enough to admit him into the Catholic Church as a clergyman. (Yahoo News -- 'The Passion of the Christ')
Therapy, dancing and madness - Wiesel talks about his 49th book Feb 28, 2009
Elie Wiesel s 49th book, A Mad Desire to Dance, is a novel that contains, like all his books, the voice of a madman ... I carry an exhibition catalog from the Metropolitan Museum of Art to Elie Wiesel s office in Midtown ... His wife, Marion, was his translator for many years, but recently she has been called to full-time work at the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity, which the couple started after he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986, and which suffered losses of around. (Missoulian, MT)
Madoff case spawns cottage industry of experts Feb 27, 2009
One of the breakfasts, billed as "Madoff and The Meltdown," was hosted by Conde Nast's Portfolio magazine at the venerable 21 Club and featured Holocaust survivor and writer Elie Wiesel, whose charitable foundation was among several Jewish institutions to lose money to Madoff. Down on Park Avenue, a panel of accountants mulled over the scam's tax implications. (AZCentral -- Business)
Elie Wiesel levels scorn at Madoff Feb 27, 2009
Elie Wiesel's charity lost $15 ... What does Elie Wiesel, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Holocaust survivor who has dedicated his life to fighting hatred and intolerance, think about Bernard Madoff ... " 'Psychopath' it's too nice a word for him," Wiesel said in his first public comments on Madoff and the Ponzi scheme he is accused of perpetrating on thousands of individuals and charities, including the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity. (International Herald Tribune -- Business)
Hope Quotes and Sayings Feb 23, 2009
These hope quotes include quotations from President Barack Obama, Emily Dickinson, Martin Luther King, Jr., Winston Churchill and Elie Wiesel ... "I have learned two lessons in my life: first, there are no sufficient literary, psychological, or historical answers to human tragedy, only moral ones. Second, just as despair can come to one another only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings." ~Elie Wiesel. (Suite101.com)
"A Mad Desire to Dance" Feb 22, 2009
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* EDITORIAL: A slap in the face of history Feb 19, 2009
Wu, Ma and their brethren should heed the advice of Holocaust survivor and renowned author Elie Wiesel. I have tried to keep the memory alive. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Sports)
His foundation plundered, Elie Wiesel again rebuilds on ruins Feb 17, 2009
Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel, 80, has a novel out today, A Mad Desire to Dance, a psychological mystery about a son's search for the truth about his parents during the Holocaust ... As an author, Elie Wiesel is best known for his Holocaust memoir, Night, an Oprah Book Club pick ... By Bob Minzesheimer, USA TODAY NEW YORK The Elie Wiesel Foundation has reported that it is among "the victims" of Bernard Madoff, having lost nearly all its assets in what may be the largest investment fraud... (USA Today -- Life)
King, Malkovich conned by Madoff Feb 8, 2009
The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity, a foundation named for the Jewish writer and activist, was also listed. The foundation earlier announced that it had $15. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Pope to address Jews... Feb 7, 2009
Among those who condemned Williamson and the pope's decision were Holocaust survivors, progressive Catholics, members of the U.S. Congress, German Jewish leaders, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and Jewish writer and Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel. VATICAN DAMAGE CONTROL CONTINUES. (The Drudge Report)
