Elisha Wiesel

USPS held a first-day-of-issue ceremony for an Elie Wiesel stamp at the 92nd Street Y in New York City.

“Jews in the world community from all side needs to find common ground,” said director Oren Rudavsky. “I think he would have sought to unify people, even if we believe different things.”

The New York artist, who drew for “The New York Times” for decades, developed a close connection with the Altneuschul in Prague and often drew on Jewish history and faith, including in works syndicated in JNS.

Elie Wiesel’s son told JNS that nothing is like the Holocaust, but the Chinese persecution of the Muslim minority has the “feeling of the Nazi machinery.”

Elie Wiesel “believed that honoring the victims of the Holocaust must be an active undertaking, not just a history lesson,” said Mike Igel, board chair of the Florida Holocaust Museum.

“To utilize my father’s name in such vile accusations is so far beyond the pale that I am staggered by the silence in response,” wrote Elisha Wiesel.

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“We can’t cede the progressive territory. Those of us who believe in these very important causes need to continue standing up for them and do so as Zionists. We don’t need to hit them over the head with it, but people need to understand that we’re not going to be excluded from any part of the political sphere where we feel we want to operate,” says Elisha Wiesel.