I will never forget that cold winter day. January 17, 1981. A 'whose who' of Jews, led by Simon Wiesenthal, Eli Wiesel, and Nobel laureates along with...
Steve Sheffey | Posted 04.24.2012
Romney can say Wiesel is right about the Mormon Church. Romney can say Wiesel is wrong about the Mormon Church. Romney can say it's none of Wiesel's business about the Mormon Church. Instead, Romney says nothing. That's not leadership. That's cowardice.
Posted 04.23.2012
President Barack Obama spoke at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum marking the annual remembrance of the Holocaust. He addressed his administration's ...
Jeff Kelly Lowenstein | Posted 04.17.2012
Even as a full-fledged adult, the loss of one parent, let alone both, is a profound wound.
HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 03.08.2012
Helen Radkey, the whistle-blowing former Mormon whose discoveries of posthumous proxy baptisms of Holocaust victims, Mahatma Gandhi and slain Jewish j...
HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 02.27.2012
Mahatma Gandhi, who employed nonviolent civil disobedience to lead India to independence after more than a century of British rule, was posthumously b...
HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 02.23.2012
Anne Frank, the Jewish girl whose diary and death in a Nazi concentration camp made her a symbol of the Holocaust, was allegedly baptized posthumously...
HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 02.14.2012
Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust survivor who has devoted his life to combating intolerance, says Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney "should spea...
HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 02.15.2012
A researcher who has spent years uncovering the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' controversial practice of posthumous proxy baptisms of Je...
Jim Luce | Posted 02.10.2012
My mother's words still ring out in my head, year after year. It was Thanksgiving 1998, Boston. I was continuing to complain about how traumatized I...
Gary He | Posted 11.28.2011
Last week, as world leaders arrived in NYC for the UN General Assembly and Clinton Global Initiative, another conference was taking place with a focus on using innovation and technology to solve the world's greatest challenges.
Dovid Efune | Posted 11.27.2011
What in truth would be the most meaningful blessing one could impart on a good friend, a significant other, a family member or colleague. What would I wish most for myself?
Thor Halvorssen | Posted 08.22.2011
Buddhist monk Palden Gyatso endured 33 years of torture at the hands of the Chinese government in Tibet's most brutal prison. You are invited to hear his life story -- one of the greatest never told.
Posted 07.01.2011
Elie Wiesel is a Holocaust survivor and author of more than 50 books. He is most famous for Night, the autobiographical story of his experiences in th...
Posted 05.25.2011
Little flubs happen all the time on live news programs, but this one is a doozy: someone at Fox News accidentally dubbed author and Holocaust survivor...
AP | ALISON MUTLER | Posted 05.25.2011
BUCHAREST, Romania — A Holocaust-era mass grave containing the bodies of an estimated 100 Jews killed by Romanian troops has been discovered in ...
Posted 05.25.2011
The 2010 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to "Liu Xiaobo for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China," according to ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011
Ben Smith has a story up today about a "public conversation" between David Axelrod and Elie Wiesel that took place Wednesday night at the 92nd Street ...
The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 05.25.2011
UPDATED White House Senior Adviser David Axelrod and Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel sat down at the 92nd Street Y in New York City Wednesday night to tal...
Alfred Gingold | Posted 05.25.2011
Readers of my last Chase Home Weasel Update on Huffpo know that we are four weeks past the talk with the Tax Department's dulcet JoAnne, during which ...
Menachem Rosensaft | Posted 05.25.2011
As we enter yet another Jewish New Year, it may be that remembering where we came from is more important and ultimately more helpful on our journey through life than knowing where we are headed.
Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011
A bright new face has been added to the crowded Web, drawing a large readership and uploading more than 900 stories in its first twelve weeks. Still ...
Regina Weinreich | Posted 05.25.2011
Just when you think historians have unearthed as many images as can be mined illustrating what happened to the Jews during WWII, a new can of film emerges and becomes a catalyst for a re-reading of a vintage Nazi film.
Angela Himsel | Posted 05.25.2011
I sat down with Rabbi S and Rabbi M at the kosher pizza place on Ben Yehuda Street in Jerusalem to talk about the recent controversial conversion bill in Israel.
Heather Reisman | Posted 05.25.2011
Last week, like so many others, I was horrified to read that a 43-year-old woman in Iran had been sentenced to be stoned to death for an alleged act of adultery. I knew I could not just go to bed that night.
Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 06.01.2012