BY ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published October 5, 2016
Who can retell the things that befell us? Who can count them? In every age a Hero or Sage came to our aid. — Mi Yimalel, “Who Can Retell,” popular children’s Hanukkah song Two exemplary Giants of Judaism, Shimon Peres and Elie Wiesel, passing...
By Rabbi Jeffrey Stiffman
• Published July 6, 2016
Elie Wiesel touched so many with his writings and his witness. I saw how the American Jewish community slowly began to understand his unique genius.As a student rabbi from 1960-65, I was offered a summer job in the library of the Baltimore Hebrew College....
“Of course, indifference can be tempting — more than that, seductive. It is so much easier to look away from victims…for the person who is indifferent, his or her neighbor are of no consequence. And, therefore, their lives are meaningless. Their...
The most important thing about an interview is knowing how you intend to start.After that, an interview should take on a life of its own, just like any other conversation. But the first time I interviewed Elie Wiesel, in 1985, I evidently forgot that...
BY ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published July 6, 2016
Elie Wiesel, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Holocaust survivor and author who died over the weekend at the age of 87, was a towering intellect who became “the conscience of the world,” in the words of President Barack Obama. He also was a true...
By Hannah Snidman, Staff writer
• Published July 6, 2016
Elie Wiesel wanted no one to forget the atrocities of the Holocaust, during which six millions Jews were slaughtered, including his own parents and younger sister. As a survivor, a human activist and Nobel laureate, Wiesel spoke and wrote eloquently about...
The St. Louis Holocaust Museum and Learning Center broke its daily visitor attendance record on Thursday, April 12, when 400 students on seven scheduled tours went through the museum. The students were from middle and high schools, private and religious...
A letter to be read in all Mormon churches warns members to stop all unauthorized posthumous baptisms, including those of Holocaust survivors. The First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the highest governing body of the Mormon...
Daniel Pearl was baptized in a Mormon proxy ritual in another case of a prominent deceased Jew discovered to have been baptized posthumously in recent weeks. Pearl, a Wall Street Journal reporter kidnapped and executed by terrorists in Pakistan in February...
Anne Frank was baptized in a Mormon proxy ritual, at least the third Holocaust victim discovered to have been baptized posthumously this month. The ceremony reportedly took place last weekend in a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints temple in...
WASHINGTON -- Holocaust survivor and author Elie Wiesel said Mitt Romney should speak up about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' practice of posthumous baptisms. In an interview with the Huffington Post, Wiesel said that Romney, the front-runner...
The Mormon church has apologized for the posthumous baptism of the parents of Simon Wiesenthal. A member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints last month submitted the names of Wiesenthal's parents for posthumous baptism, the Salt Lake Tribune...
