It’s Nobel week! And that means speeches from winners past and present. Holocaust survivor and laureate Elie Wiesel was at the 92nd Street Y last night when a very similar community center with vaguely religious affiliations, Park51, came up. According to the Daily News, this is what the author had to say:
“Let’s Read More
A story in this morning’s Times about a play that explores the relationship between Bernie Madoff and Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel comes with a bizarre second-act twist: Wiesel sounds like kind of a jerk.
The 81-year-old author, Holocaust survivor and Madoff victim was so opposed to the play, Imagining Madoff, that he delayed Read More
Watching President Obama in Cairo the other day, I was struck by his vision, ambition, and his desire to bring about change. Having voted for him in the New York primary last year and in the general election in November, I confess to having enormous sympathy for him. I root for him like he is Read More
As you probably already know, Bernard Madoff is heading to jail.
The New York Times‘ Diana B. Henriques and Jack Healy report that Mr. Madoff pleaded guilty to Judge Denny Chin this morning at United States District Court in Manhattan. Taking “breaking news” to new heights, The Wall Street Journal and its News Corp. Read More
As if the city’s charities didn’t have enough to contend with this holdiay season, it looks as though newly infamous investor Bernard Madoff is going to make things that much worse. Mr. Madoff, who is all over the news for squadering billions of dollars in high-profile money in a massive Ponzi scheme, Read More
Volatile publisher Judith Regan on Michael Wolff and his portrayal of her in his recent The Man Who Owns the News: "He’s grossly irresponsible. I’m going to sue him personally, so he’ll have to spend his own money. He projects his own perverted view of the world on everyone else. He is consumed with Read More
Public Editor Clark Hoyt wrote his column this weekend about the Times Bestseller List. What does it do and how does it work, he wanted to know; also, why was Elie Wiesel’s Night retired from the list last month despite the fact that it was still selling well enough to chart at number Read More
It’s hard to imagine two people whose combined influence could get more important people off their couches and over to the Waldorf-Astoria on a Sunday night (May 20) than Nobel Prize winner Elie Wiesel and talk-show hostess Oprah Winfrey, who was being honored by Mr. Wiesel’s foundation.
For once the tip Read More
Isn’t it Tisch? Odd Bedfellows Denise Rich and Elie Wiesel Hype Hotelier’s New Book
“Hey, that’s Elie Wiesel,” said NYPD detective turned big-time security consultant Bo Deitel. Mr. Deitel was standing by the bar during the party for Loews Hotel chief executive Jonathan Tisch’s new book, Chocolates on the Pillow Aren’t Enough, at the Four Read More
The Nazis’ extermination of Gypsies was nearly as complete, proportionally, as the Nazis’ extermination of European Jews. Yet the commemoration of Gypsy victims of the Holocaust has never come even close to the memorialization of Jewish victims.
In her fine book on gypsy life, Bury Me Standing, Isabel Fonseca describes the resistance by Read More
