Posts Tagged: Oprah Winfrey
Meghan Markle and the Jewish Question
JNS.org - Over the next few days, Tikvah and the Jewish Leadership Conference are holding their third annual symposium on Jews and conservatism, this time...
Humanitarian Legacies of Elie Wiesel, Oprah Winfrey Linked by Foundation’s New Award
JNS.org - Elie Wiesel, who before his death in 2016 was arguably the world’s most well-known Holocaust survivor, reached millions of people through his writing and...
Answering the Call of My Father, Elie Wiesel
Following is the text of an address by Elisha Wiesel at the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity gala on Wednesday night. I would like to begin...
Inaugural Tears of Joy
I watched President Barack Obama’s 2009 inauguration on TV in Israel, alternating between Hebrew- and English-speaking channels, so as not to miss any detail or...
Report: Oprah Winfrey Shunned BDS Activists Demanding Meeting Over Leviev Diamonds
Media mogul Oprah Winfrey was among this month’s targets of BDS pressure, the New York Post reported on Sunday. But the TV network owner, best...
Obama: Israeli Nobel Winner Kahneman ‘Basically Invented the Study of Human Decision Making’
American-Israeli Nobel Prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman was one of 16 recipients Wednesday of the United States' highest civilian honor, The Presidential Medal of Freedom. In awarding...
Forced Marriages are Against Jewish Law
Deborah Feldman, author of Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots, and model mom, Pearl Perry Reich, have recently made national headlines with their stories of...
Pop Art Rabbi on Oprah’s Next Chapter
As a departure from what I usually do on this blog I would like to share some personal art news. The show that I curated in Brooklyn...
