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Moving & Shaking: Tom Hanks reads ‘Night,’ San Fernando Valley Breakfast for Israel and more
Ryan Torok
April 26, 2017
EXCLUSIVE: Tom Hanks on Elie Wiesel, the importance of Holocaust remembrance
Jewish Journal
April 24, 2017
Moving & Shaking: Tom Hanks, survivors and others do a live-reading of Elie Wiesel’s ‘Night’
Eitan Arom
April 24, 2017
A friend recalls Wiesel a caring mentor, moral guide
Eitan Arom
July 2, 2016
Elie Wiesel, Nobel laureate, author and Holocaust survivor, who died July 2 at the age of 87, served as an emissary for survivors to the world’s leaders.
Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Holocaust survivor, dies at 87
Jewish Journal
July 2, 2016
Holocaust survivor, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and prolific author and outspoken activist Elie Wiesel died Saturday the age of 87.
Survivor, storyteller, celebrity, sage: Elie Wiesel at 85
Jonah Lowenfeld
September 24, 2013
When talking about Elie Wiesel, who turns 85 on Sept. 30, it is far too easy to fall into a list of superlatives. As a child who survived Auschwitz and other concentration camps, Wiesel witnessed more death and more horrors than most human beings ever will. A onetime journalist who wrote for Hebrew- and Yiddish-language newspapers, starting in the 1950s, Wiesel has gone on to publish more books than most writers ever do, including “Night,” which has become the second-most widely read work of Holocaust literature in the world.
Elie Wiesel and questions of God and duty
Jewish Journal
February 15, 2013
The madness always calls him back. You only have to glance at Elie Wiesel’s tortured face to know that he is always at risk. Even after the countless novels and the Nobel Peace Prize.
Opinion: Bridge to empathy
Rob Eshman
January 25, 2012
If you like your satire dark, I mean jet black, you probably love the scene from episode four, season four of “Weeds,” in which Len Botwin, played by Albert Brooks, gives a history lesson to his young nephew Shane.
Briefs: Jews, Muslims join to combat Islamophobia and anti-Semitism
Jewish Journal
November 26, 2008
On Nov. 17, some 20 devout Muslims from the King Fahad Mosque bowed and prostrated themselves as they recited the Isha, or night prayer, at Temple Emanuel of Beverly Hills, with about 80 Jews watching the unfamiliar ritual. At the same time, in another room of the Reform temple, Jewish congregants participated in the Ma\’ariv evening prayer, watched respectfully by a group of Muslims.
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