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Elie Wiesel

Certified elementary school librarian Sarah Pepin speaks at a State Board of Education meeting in Austin on June 22, 2026. (Aiden Gonzalez/The Texas Tribune via JTA)
June 27, 2026, 9:50 am
Texas creates required reading list that includes Anne Frank and the Bible
State board of education votes 9-5 for the list, over objections from Jewish leaders concerned about injecting Christian content into lessons for the state’s 5.5 million public school students
By Grace Gilson and Andrew Lapin
Elie Wiesel arrives for a round table discussion on Capitol Hill, March 2, 2015, in Washington, DC. (WIN MCNAMEE / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)
January 27, 2026, 5:52 am
New documentary reveals saga behind Elie Wiesel’s world-famous Holocaust memoir ‘Night’
In ‘Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire,’ airing on PBS in the US on January 27, filmmaker Oren Rudavsky examines the Nobel laureate through his ‘lifelong attempt to give his life meaning’
By Rich Tenorio
Political activist and writer Elie Wiesel on November 3, 1980 in New York, New York. (Santi Visalli/Getty Images via JTA)
January 4, 2024, 8:39 am
To protect Elie Wiesel’s ‘Night,’ US judge blocks part of ‘bizarre’ book ban law
Iowa judge Stephen Locher says that the ‘broad’ law banning books that depict sex acts could prevent schools from stocking Holocaust education books
By Andrew Lapin
US President Bill Clinton (C) lights the eternal flame at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 22 April 1993 with help from Memorial Council Chairman Harvey Meyerhoff (L) and Founding Chairman Elie Wiesel (R) (RENAUD GIROUX / AFP)
August 8, 2023, 11:54 am
Harvey Meyerhoff, chair of US Holocaust Memorial Museum at its founding, dies at 96
Real estate businessman raised the $150 million in private funds that built the museum; was also prominent supporter of the arts, culture and education in Baltimore and Israel
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Central Bucks High School South, Philadelphia. (CC BY-SA 2.5/Michael H. Parker)
January 28, 2023, 11:56 pm
Philadelphia high school librarian ordered to remove poster with Elie Wiesel quote
School district later reverses decision by principal who cited ‘neutrality’ policy, notes the Holocaust survivor and Nobel Prize-winning author’s ‘Night’ is part of the curriculum
By Andrew Lapin
A bust of Mircea Vulcanescu in Bucharest Romania, seen in 2022. (screen capture: Google Street View)
January 4, 2023, 5:44 am
Bucharest city council rejects plan to remove bust of pro-Nazi minister
Elie Wiesel Center accuses officials in Romanian capital of breaking law by leaving monument to Mircea Vulcanescu, who served in government of Hitler ally Ion Antonescu
By MARCEL GASCÓN BARBERÁ
Jews visit the graves of relatives killed in the Holocaust during World War II, in the Romanian city of Lasi, November 28, 2012 (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)
November 18, 2021, 2:42 pm
Romania makes Holocaust education mandatory in all high schools
Law to come into effect in 2023; nationalist lawmaker says legislation is unnecessary, falsely claiming Romania hasn’t seen a single ‘serious antisemitic case’ in 20 years
By MARCEL GASCÓN BARBERÁ
A page from the notebooks of "Mr. Shushani," a mysterious scholar who taught many of the greatest Jewish studies scholars of the 20th century. (National Library of Israel via JTA)
October 19, 2021, 8:58 pm
Israel to display notebooks of mysterious scholar who taught Elie Wiesel
Curator at National Library hails ‘Mr. Shushani,’ who also counted Emmanuel Levinas among his pupils, as one of the most ‘influential figures in 20th-century Jewish thought’
By Shira Hanau
Artist Mindy Weisel in her Jerusalem home, prior to the September 2021 launch of her memoir, "After" (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
September 17, 2021, 1:47 pm
Podcast: Born in shadow of Holocaust, artist Mindy Weisel searches for beauty
Weisel discusses her latest memoir, ‘After: The Obligation of Beauty,’ drawing on her experience as a daughter to Auschwitz survivor parents
By ToI Staff
A man holds a placard during a protest organized by Jewish associations, who say justice has not been done for the killing of French Jewish woman Sarah Halimi, at Trocadero Plaza near Eiffel Tower in Paris, April 25, 2021. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
July 6, 2021, 10:26 pm
Amid rising US antisemitism, Jewish groups plan July 11 solidarity rally in DC
‘NO FEAR: A Rally in Solidarity with the Jewish People’ set to take place in Washington with a ‘big tent’ of Jewish groups; co-organized by Elisha Wiesel
By Matt Lebovic
In this undated photo, sculptor Chas Fagan, left, holds a clay model of a bust of Elie Wiesel and watches as stonemason Sean Callahan, right, uses medieval techniques to carve the bust into the walls of the National Cathedral in Washington DC. (National Cathedral/ via JTA)
April 28, 2021, 3:55 pm
Elie Wiesel to be first modern Jew honored with bust in US National Cathedral
Nobel laureate and Holocaust memoirist joins fellow members-of-the-tribe Jesus and some apostles, along with humanitarians Mother Teresa, Rosa Parks, and Oscar Romero in DC shrine
By Ron Kampeas
Adolf Eichmann is seen standing in his bullet proof glass box as the charges against him are read during judical proceedings in the Beit Ha'Am building in Jerusalem, April 12, 1961. (AP Photo/Str)
May 8, 2020, 10:45 am
History in the making: The Mossad mission to capture Adolf Eichmann
How Israel’s spy agency laid its hands on one of Nazi Germany’s most notorious war criminals and brought him to trial in Jerusalem
By Karinne Delorme
Romanian Prime Minister Viorica Dancila (L) lays a wreath at the Hall of Remembrance on April 25, 2018, during her visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum in Jerusalem. (AFP Photo/Gali Tibbon)
October 9, 2019, 6:55 pm
Romania approves Holocaust museum aimed at shedding light on its WWII role
Panel headed by late Elie Weisel found 280,000 Romanian Jews and 380,000 Ukrainian Jews died in Romanian territory in Nazi era, along with 11,000 Roma
By AFP
Then-US president Donald Trump holds up a signed executive order to increase sanctions on Iran, in the Oval Office of the White House, June 24, 2019, in Washington. Trump is accompanied by then-treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin, left, and then-vice president Mike Pence. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
September 16, 2019, 1:25 pm
Trump submits first report mandated under Wiesel Genocide Prevention Act
Document ordered under new law provides overview of US government’s efforts to prevent and respond to mass atrocities around the world
By JTA
Visitors seen at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum in Jerusalem on January 24, 2018 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
March 28, 2019, 12:40 pm
Yad Vashem urges US politicians to end ‘divisive anti-Semitic language’
Israel’s Holocaust memorial museum runs ads in New York Times and Washington Post during AIPAC conference
By JTA and ToI Staff
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