elie wiesel Archives – Page 6 of 7

Wiesel says he and Obama are teaming for book

Jewish Journal November 5, 2012

Elie Wiesel and President Obama are writing a book together, the Holocaust survivor and author told an Israeli newspaper.

Wiesel, Jewish leaders rap changes to Canada’s refugee policy

Jewish Journal July 9, 2012

Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel joined a growing list of Jewish leaders who are calling on Canada to reverse changes to legislation that denies health care to refugee claimants.

Wiesel raps Hungary Nazi past ‘whitewash’

Jewish Journal June 19, 2012

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel has renounced a Hungarian state award he received in 2004 in protest against what he said was a \”whitewashing\” of the role of former Hungarian governments in the deportation of Jews during World War Two.

Elie Wiesel honored by U.S.’ largest pro bono law firm

Tom Tugend April 25, 2012

Germany started its long descent into brutality and murder when the Nazi regime began to corrupt the nation’s laws, Elie Wiesel told more than a thousand guests, predominantly lawyers, on April 22 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.

Wiesel: Romney should speak out about proxy baptisms

Jewish Journal February 15, 2012

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 in the race for the Republican presidential nod, should tell his church to “stop” performing posthumous proxy baptisms of Holocaust victims.