After Elie Wiesel, can anyone unite American Jews?
Being an American Jew, more than anything else, means remembering the Holocaust.
Being an American Jew, more than anything else, means remembering the Holocaust.
Above all else, it is through his smile that I best remember Elie Wiesel from a decade in his classroom at Boston University.
Most people know Elie Wiesel as the author of “Night,” one of the first published autobiographical accounts of what life was like inside Nazi concentration camps.
Elie Wiesel was a soul on fire. The spiritual intensity of his Chassidic upbringing permeated and fashioned the core of his being.
Brian Ducoffe was the president of the Jewish student organization Hillel at Chapman University when Elie Wiesel was a visiting scholar there.
The Clinton campaign rejected comments by a journalist who accused Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who died July 2, of “inciting hatred” and “defending apartheid.”
Elie Wiesel, the world’s best-known and most-influential Holocaust survivor, is no longer.
This is a very difficult day. What Elie meant to our Chapman program and to me is more than I can ever adequately express.
In Elie Wiesel’s book-lined office, there were no photos of the many world leaders with whom he met. In fact, there was only one photo. It sat propped on his desk facing him.
On my bookshelves there are two rows of volumes on the Soviet Jewry movement.