Elie Wiesel’s defiant faith. Journalist Joseph Berger documents the writer’s work, his activism, and the belief in God that he never fully renounced. by Charles Scriven in the February 2025 issue.

When Elie Wiesel was a child, he and his Jewish community in Romania began to hear rumors of Nazi atrocities, but no one believed them. ... Elie Wiesel’s former faith bloomed again.

As a people of faith, let us work to change the laws that keep so many of our people down. ... Remembering Elie Wiesel: 'the opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference' ...

Wiesel's gift, and that of other survivors of genocide, lies in the testimonies they convey to us and the knowledge that is passed on through their memories if we listen and learn from their ...

Indeed, Peggy Shapiro, who organized Wiesel’s lecture series at Moriah Congregation in Deerfield for 18 years, recalled a talk Wiesel engaged in several years ago with students from Solomon ...

Activist and writer Elie Wiesel, ... with Wiesel and his wife losing their life’s savings and the foundation losing $15.2 ... “Never shall I forget those flames that consumed my faith forever.

So wrote Elie Wiesel in one of the most compelling of his nearly 50 books, “Messengers of ... agonizing crises of faith and haunted memories of the annihilated Jewish village he once called ...

Elie Wiesel was born in 1928 to a very religious Hassidic family in Seagate, to Elisha and Sarah Weisel. ... In fact, Wiesel’s questions about faith about, providence, ...

I have just finished reading one of the most extraordinary books I’ve ever seen, Witness: Lessons from Elie Wiesel’s Classroom, by the incomparable Rabbi Dr. Ariel Burger. The book is replete ...

Elisha Wiesel, the son of Elie Wiesel, calls for the return of the book "Night" to classrooms and why proper education of Israel and the Holocaust era can help fight antisemitism.

With the Israel-Hamas war raging, Charlotte NC Pastor Kate Murphy shares lessons she learned on peace from Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel. Gaza conflict: We cannot heal a massacre with more ...