Topic: Elie Wiesel

Mel Gibson: What I’ll tell my Jewish son about anti-semitic remarks

Mel Gibson is involved in another dustup over alleged anti-semitic remarks, and a Jewish mom contemplates how she'll talk to her son about hatred.

Daniel Stein, Interpreter

Russian writer Ludmila Ulitskaya creates a novel from the real-life story of a Holocaust survivor who became a monk.

She went to New Orleans to clean up after Hurricane Katrina – and stayed to start a charter school

After Hurricane Katrina, Channa Mae Cook cofounded Sojourner Truth, a charter school with an emphasis on community service and social justice issues, to help lift up New Orleans' embattled school system.

Beyond the Gaza blockade: What drives Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu?

Benjamin Netanyahu's handling of the Gaza blockade flotilla crisis has further isolated Israel in the world and strained relations with Washington. Can a tough nationalist emerge as a statesman?

Elie Wiesel says tensions between US and Israel are lessening

Elie Wiesel, the Nobel Laureate, had lunch with President Obama on Tuesday. Afterwards, Wiesel told reporters tensions between the US and Israel are lessening.

In Egypt, a year-old controversy over book burning is sparked anew

In Mideast and Europe, Obama debuts 'global populism'

The American president took his case straight to the people on his trip this week, spending limited time with the leaders of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Germany, and France.

In Dresden and Nazi camp, Obama highlights capacity for reconstruction

The president visits the city that bore some of World War II’s heaviest damage, as well as the death camp.

Why the US will boycott global racism conference

A meeting to judge progress on racism is likely to be captive to Israeli-Palestinian and Islamic defamation issues.

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What are Americans really reading?

American and German students take cross-ocean class on the Holocaust

Students at Vassar College in the US and the University of Potsdam in Germany share ideas – and cultural differences – on Germany's 'darkest hour.'

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