Wynton Marsalis Awarded French Legion of Honor in NYC
Wynton Marsalis received France’s highest distinction last week in New York – the insignia of chevalier of the Legion of Honor, an honor t...
Wynton Marsalis received France’s highest distinction last week in New York – the insignia of chevalier of the Legion of Honor, an honor t...
Rachel Sklar | Posted 11.02.2009 | Media
Even the most loyal users can get turned off by a bad user experience. This is the Internet -- there's always something else waiting in the wings.
Max Blumenthal | Posted 10.30.2009 | Media
During an unofficial panel of bloggers and activists at J Street's conference, I criticized Wiesel and Oren for associating with Hagee. Why is Wiesel palling around with Hagee? Why did I "mock" Wiesel?
Melissa Biggs Bradley | Posted 10.13.2009 | Impact
Last week, I attended a dinner where Elie Wiesel made a call to the room full of executives to become more engaged. "When it comes to those who need help, don't rely on God," he said.
Joseph Freeman | Posted 11.16.2009 | World
Hosny publicly said that he would burn all the books in Alexandria's library that had anything to do with Israel. He also called Israeli culture "racist."
Marty Kaplan | Posted 08.30.2009 | Politics
I'll never forget the moment when Mondale finished delivering the speech. I'd been told that the most we could hope for was a smattering of polite applause; instead, there was a sustained standing ovation.
Dr. Cara Barker | Posted 08.08.2009 | Living
"....in those times, it was human to be inhuman. And now the world has learned, I hope.... There must come a moment -- a moment of bringing people to...
Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 07.12.2009 | Politics
Simon Wiesenthal, the great Nazi Hunter and humanitarian would say to us: "I don't judge a democratic society by how many Nazis there are, but by how many anti-Nazis there are."
Thane Rosenbaum | Posted 07.07.2009 | World
Perhaps Obama's Buchenwald visit was a symbolic reassurance to the Jews of the world: that he was aware of the reasons why a Jewish state became a moral necessity after the Holocaust.
Rachel Sklar | Posted 07.06.2009 | World
Today, Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel joined Barack Obama at Buchenwald, one of Nazi Germany's worst concentration camps, but he worried that "the world hasn't learned" from the tragedy.
Huffington Post | Posted 07.06.2009 | World
President Obama delivered a powerful speech today when he visited Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany. He spoke on genocide, hatred, and the abil...
Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 06.05.2009 | World
There is nothing wrong with criticizing Israeli policies. But those who choose to mis-characterize Israel's self-defense as "Nazi" are factually and historically wrong and morally repugnant.
Thane Rosenbaum | Posted 05.08.2009 | World
European insurances companies are being permitted to conceal their Holocaust thefts and continue operating with impunity while Bernard Madoff languishes in prison for no less sinister a crime.
Haaretz | Shlomo Shamir | Posted 04.06.2009 | World
Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel on Thursday said the passing of resolutions attacking Israel at the upcoming "Durban II" conference on racism would only ha...
Menachem Rosensaft | Posted 03.07.2009 | World
Holocaust denial is a pernicious strain of anti-Semitism, and Pope Benedict's ill-conceived embrace of Bishop Williamson sends a clear message within the Roman Catholic Church.
Andrea Chalupa | Posted 02.04.2009 | Living
We now have something outside ourselves to struggle against. A very real and tangible angst.
Jim Luce | Posted 11.13.2009 | New York