MICHAEL DOUGLAS (L) and Elie and Marion Wiesel (credit: Courtesy) In the 1990s, the Wiesels founded the Beit Tzipora Centers to provide academic aid and empowerment to Israeli-Ethiopian children.

Elie Wiesel, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986, was born in the provincial town of Sighet, Romania on September 30, 1928. A Jewish community had existed there since 1640, when it sought ...

A principal ruled the quote violated the school’s policy on “neutrality” before allowing the posters back up the next day. (JTA) — A quote by the Nobel Prize-winning author and Holocaust ...

“The State of Israel and the Jewish People bitterly mourn the passing of Elie Wiesel,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement Saturday. “Elie, the wordsmith, expressed ...