New documentary on Holocaust survivor "Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire" to be shown at Central Mass. Jewish Film Fest.

The “staggeringly broad” law, he wrote in his opinion, would prevent public schools from stocking “non-fiction history books about the Holocaust.” He pointed specifically to Elie Wiesel ...

He is the author of a recently published biography of Elie Wiesel. More about Joseph Berger Joan Didion’s Diary: The notes, taken after meetings with her psychiatrist, will be published in ...

"The Joy Luck Club" author Amy Tan, musician Elton John, writer and television host Anthony Bourdain, actress and playwright Anna Deavere Smith, and "Night" author Elie Wiesel.

After a life of virtue, empathy has been cast into the street by an array of billionaires, psychologists, evangelicals.

Author Amitav Ghosh is this year's keynote speaker at the Loyola University of Maryland Humanities Symposium, and he joins Jennifer Franciotti for a conversation about his research and writing about ...

In the Academy Award-nominated film A Real Pain, two Jewish American cousins (Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin) embark on a ...

In 1999, now living in the United States, Resi received a letter from a teacher from Bad Salzschlirf: Anja Listmann. A ...

Art Spiegelman’s life was always doomed to be one that wrestled with a larger legacy — or a 500-pound mouse. In his book Breakdowns, about his artist’s journey, he illustrated his Holocaust ...

Ramadan is the holiday celebrating the first revelation to the prophet Mohammad by the angel Gabriel in around the year 610.

Author espouses a "fail safer" philosophy ... Previous speakers included Mitch Albom, David Gergen and Elie Wiesel. A lesson in failing safer is the Fukushima disaster, Kayyem said.