Staff / TruthdigJul 4, 2016
"We must speak We must take sides," the late Holocaust survivor, Nobel laureate and author told Bill Moyers in this timeless interview We must take sides". Dig deeper ( 29 Min. Read )
Mr. Fish / TruthdigDec 3, 2011
The voice on the other end of the telephone needed to make sure that I was 21. I wasn’t. “I’m 22,” I said, lying, figuring that 19 might as well be 22 and, anyway, this was a comedy club that I was scheduling an audition for, not the Moonlite Bunny Ranch or the FBI.Back in the summer of 1982 I asked my mother if we had any Jewish ancestors. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigMay 13, 2010
You may recall Nobel Prize winner Elie Wiesel’s letter urging President Barack Obama to lay off of Jewish settlements in Jerusalem. A group of prominent intellectuals who actually live in the city have written their own withering response, calling Wiesel’s letter a fantasy “replete with factual errors and false representations.” Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJan 17, 2006
Winfrey's next monthly selection is a Holocaust memoir. | story But her now-dubious stamp of approval is hardly a comfort. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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