Nimeni nu ştie tot, fiecare îşi completează şi revizuieşte cunoştinţele cum i se pare mai bine, când se iveşte ocazia. Recentele evenimente din fâşia Gaza ne obligă la o completare şi revizuire a ceea ce ştim sau credem că ştim...

Elie Wiesel, author, survivor, voice of morality, expert on evil, has found someone he'd like locked up and tortured for crimes against humanity: Bernie Madoff, who took all his money. Getting bilked by a con artist is, obviously, very upsetting, and there is very probably something wrong with Berni...

Actually, most of the criticism has been from people who believe the film excuses the main character's culpability in allowing the incineration of 300 Jews. But the joint statement from the movie's director, Stephen Daldry, Mr. Weinstein, the producer Donna Giglotti, and the screenwriter, David Hare...

EDITOR'S NOTE: Courage is always contagious. The sight of one human being standing alone against a mob or a crowd often inspires others, in spite of threats and insults from the majority. In the Western heritage particularly, this is seen as a hallmark of nobility. In an autumn afternoon, long ago, ...

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Here are the 2007 990 IRS filing and the 2006 filing. The amount of trading with the Wunderkinder’s money is unbelievable. It’s as though someone was day-trading with the Foundation’s nestegg. Wunderkinder’s operators were, at best, asleep at the wheel. The trades go off like...

From the Times of London Dec. 20, 2008: It takes an extraordinarily heartless conman to swindle a survivor of Auschwitz and Buchenwald and Nobel Peace Prize winner out of all his charitable funds. Yet that is exactly what Bernard “Bernie” Madoff is alleged to have done to Elie Wiesel, th...

The losers in the Bernie Madoff scandal rarely have clean hands. They were knowing participants in a scheme that was entirely imprudent and in more jeopardy than a virgin at a jailhouse rodeo. The Elie Wiesel Foundation had $4 million in assets. A very small amount as charities go - check out the Wi...

Recently, scientists repeated the Milgram test, reports the BBC, which demonstrated normal people's willingness to inflict pain on others, and guess what? There's no difference today. The original Milgram test basically predicted Abu Graib: it showed that normal people are willing to inflict extreme...

by Michael HoffmanCopyright © 2008. All Rights Reserved Bernard L. Madoff has run off with the store so to speak -- the store of cash that is, which Judaics from Steven Spielberg to Elie Wiesel had stashed with this agent of of the world's second oldest profession, whose patron is that hoary old ra...