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Guilt On Trial
Elie Wiesel’s new novel explores themes of memory, justice and journalistic ethics. Sandee Brawarsky Jewish Week Book Critic Tue, 11/16/2010When Werner Sonderberg replies “Guilty … and not guilty,”...
View ArticleWiesel’s Back Pages, With Soundtrack
Sandee Brawarsky Elie Wiesel once told this reporter that he lives in his memories. In his many books, the Nobel laureate has vividly recaptured the atmosphere of his childhood in Sighet, Romania, and...
View ArticleFolksbiene Connects To Tradition
Tim Boxer Special to the Jewish Week The National Yiddish Theater/Folksbiene has come a long way in its 96th season. In fact, the highlight of its annual cabaret dinner on Dec. 8 at the Bohemian...
View Article‘Durban,’ Delegitimization Seen Linked
Stewart Ain Staff Writer Conference here draws parallels between anti-Israel activity and Palestinians’ statehood bid.The Palestinians are well on their way to successfully delegitimizing Israel’s...
View ArticleObama At Holocaust Museum Pledges To Stand By Israel, Fight Atrocities
JTA President Obama in an address at a Holocaust remembrance event said he would "always be there for Israel" and defended his administration's record on preventing atrocities.Obama spoke Monday at...
View ArticleWiesel Meets With ‘Write On’ Students
Staff Writer Nobel Peace laureate Elie Wiesel, in an intergenerational dialogue with seven current and former participants in The Jewish Week’s Write On For Israel program Monday evening, encouraged...
View ArticleElie Wiesel And Tom Hanks: New Fast Friends
Gary Rosenblatt Editor and Publisher Wiesel Foundation honors actor for preserving the memory of World War II. Few would put the names Elie Wiesel, Tom Hanks and Sting in the same sentence, much less...
View ArticleWiesel And Hanks: New Fast Friends
Gary Rosenblatt Few would put the names Elie Wiesel, Tom Hanks and Sting in the same sentence, much less the men themselves in the same room. But there they were last week in the majestic Celeste...
View ArticleStevie Wonder Backs Out Of LA Friends Of IDF Event
The head of the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces expressed his regret that Grammy-winning singer Stevie Wonder has pulled out of performing at a fundraiser for the group.The "Superstition" recordng...
View ArticleTim Boxer At YU Convocation
Tim Boxer Jewish Week Correspondent As President Richard Joel bestowed honorary degrees at Yeshiva University’s 88th convocation last week at the Waldorf-Astoria, not a word was uttered about...
View ArticleElie Wiesel’s ‘Open Heart’
Sandee Brawarsky Book Critic Two years ago, Elie Wiesel faced sudden, life-threatening open-heart surgery. Initially, he failed to grasp its seriousness.read more
View ArticleBloomberg Awarded Inaugural Genesis Prize
JTA (JTA) — New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg will be the first recipient of the $1 million Genesis Prize, which is being called the “Jewish Nobel Prize.” The award will be presented by Israeli Prime...
View ArticleLisa Kudrow Speaks Out On Jewishness, Anti-Semitism
Gabriela Geselowitz Jewish Week Correspondent 'Friends' star discusses Holocaust, nose job and bias among college friends. Actor Lisa Kudrow's relatives lost in the Holocaust, her own experiences with...
View ArticleTim Boxer At Elie Wiesel Honor
Tim Boxer Jewish Week Online Columnist Ron Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress (WJC), called upon Hillary Clinton to present the organization’s second annual Theodor Herzl Award to Marion...
View ArticleRabbi Shmuley Boteach
Heather Robinson of The Jewish Week and NYBlueprint speaks to Rabbi Shmuley Boteach about Iran's nuclear program, Miley Cyrus, attention vs. interest, fear of intimacy, sexy rabbis and more. Too much...
View ArticleRick Perry, Sean Penn, Sheldon Adelson And Chris Christie Fete Shmuley
JTA New York — The last time New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie spoke at a venue attended by Sheldon Adelson, he alienated the Republican Party mega-donor and other hawkish pro-Israel Jews by referring...
View ArticleSon Of Hamas Founder: Group Uses Human Shields
Stewart Ain Staff Writer The eldest son of Hamas founder Sheikh Hassan Yousef is siding with Israel in its war with Hamas, saying flatly that Hamas “puts Gaza’s children in front of Israeli tanks...
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