Abraham Foxman, former national director of the Anti-Defamation League, speaks to reporters outside Elie Wiesel’s funeral. Wiesel and his wife, Marion, were honored by the League with the Jabotinsky Award Courageous Jewish Leadership in 2013.
“He carried a message universally, he carried the Jewish pain, the message of Jewish tragedy to the world but he took it way beyond. He stood up for the people in Rwanda, he stood up for the Yugoslavians, he stood up for the Cambodians…” says Foxman, who has known Wiesel for decades.
“We talked about forgiveness, we talked about God. He was struggling with it,” Foxman says. “Well, now he’s a little closer. Now he can challenge the Almighty much closer and maybe he’ll get some answers, which he asked, but never got the answers to.”
— AP, Times of Israel staff
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