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My last Sabbath with Elie Wiesel, a giant of our era - NY Daily News

I was in North Carolina last week when Elisha Wiesel informed me that his father’s health had taken an irreversible turn for the worse.

"I did not know quite what to say. I felt inadequate to the task. But I did not want to choose my words. I wanted them to flow from my heart."

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Battling dark emotion at the Gaza border | Shmuley Boteach | The Blogs | The Tim

It was a moving day. Almost too moving. And I don’t know how to quite process the emotions. Having arrived with my family in Israel, we traveled to Sderot, the beleaguered city of twenty-five thousand in Southern Israel which Hamas uses for target practice. More than twelve thousand deadly rockets have been fired at its inhabitants. Every home has a bomb shelter.