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

The late Elie Wiesel, the famed essayist and survivor of Adolf Hitler’s camps, once described the Holocaust as “an indictment of our present world.” Eight decades later, that verdict was ...

I’d add that I think part of that innocence is that he’s seeing these landscapes, from his home in the Bronx, through the gauze of memory, through the eyes of his younger self, with a kind of ...

I write as a Jew, and we Jews need them as well — if only for our young people to witness ... It happened some decades ago, when Elie Wiesel stood up to then-President Ronald Reagan when ...

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

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

The beginning of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan on Friday evening Feb. 28 brings us back to the ways sacred calendars are created. The first way a year was calculated in human history was by the ...

Portrait With Maus Mask, 1989. At many points in his life Art Spiegelman has tried to escape his family’s past—and who can blame him? His parent ...

Gelman was steeped in the comics past and introduced the young Spiegelman to the wonders ... resist the unwelcome role of becoming “the Elie Wiesel of comics.” But the heaviest burden is ...

Since Donald Trump’s election as President, I’ve seen a quote from Nobel Prize Laureate Elie Wiesel circulate on ... the United States is still a very young country. We’re only 80 years ...