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Stevie Wonder nets UN honour
New York City :: NY :: USA | 3 days ago
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The United Nations has tapped American music icon Stevie Wonder as one of its latest celebrity ambassadors. Songs by Lady Gaga and other chart-toppers that glamourize unhealthy behaviours like disrespect and manipulation are the music equivalent of junk...
Tags: Stevie Wonder, U.N., New York City, Ban Ki-moon, Entertainment Culture, Human Interest, Social Issues, Charlize Theron, United Nations, Elie Wiesel, George Clooney, Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein, American Federation of Teachers, United Nations Messengers of Peace, Hasidic Judaism, Michael Jackson, South Africa under apartheid
114: Elie Wiesel
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 4 days ago
Credibility Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel KBE (born September 30, 1928) is a writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor. He is the author of 57 books, the best known of which is Night, a memoir that describes his experiences during the Holocaust...
Tags: Elie Wiesel, Los Angeles, American Federation of Teachers, Hasidic Judaism, Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide, Holocaust literature, Religion Belief
Stevie Wonder named UN Messenger of Peace
New York City :: NY :: USA | 4 days ago
Credibility The U.N. chief is naming blind pop star Stevie Wonder a United Nations Messenger of Peace to focus on helping people with disabilities. U.N. deputy spokeswoman Marie Okabe said his designation as a U.N. peace envoy will be officially announced on Thursday...
Tags: U.N., Stevie Wonder, United Nations, wonder naming, New York City, Human Interest, Entertainment Culture, Social Issues, Elie Wiesel, Disability, Junior Blind of America, Developmental disability, Superstition, United Nations Messengers of Peace, Ban Ki-moon, My Cherie Amour, Special education, Jane Goodall
Far right driving GOP (short) bus
The Rabid Right has been at least a small part of the Republican Party for a long time, just as the Democrats have had their own problems with the Loony Left. Go all the way back to Barry Goldwater and the "little old ladies in tennis shoes" and you'll...
Tags: lunatics, far right, far left, Hitler, Elie Wiesel
Elie Wiesel: Sri Lanka's victimization of Tamil people must stop
Colombo :: Sri Lanka | 5 months ago
Credibility According to reliable sources, the Tamil people are being disenfranchised and victimized by the Sri Lanka authorities...The Tamil people must be allowed to live in peace and flourish in their homeland." In 1986, Prof. Wiesel won the Nobel Prize for Peace,...
Tags: Elie Wiesel, Colombo, Sri Lanka, tamil civilians
Powell, Wiesel to attend Holocaust museum events
Khartoum :: Sudan | 8 months ago
Credibility After nearly three years of construction and raising $45 million, the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center in Skokie is gearing up for its grand opening this month, beginning with a sold-out gala tonight. Former Secretary of State Colin Powell,...
Tags: Elie Wiesel, holocaust museum
Is Sympathy for Bernie Madoff's Millionaire Victims Misplaced?
Originally posted on MonkeyPundit.com By now, most of us have heard the sad, sob stories of millionaires (and multimillionaires) who have lost there life savings to Bernard Madoff's Ponzi Scheme; life savings in the millions, and in some cases tens of...
Tags: Bernie Madoff, Madoff, Bernard Madoff, Ponzi, Ponzi Scheme, Ponzi Investment Scheme, Elie Wiesel, Wiesel
Elie Wiesel: Could I forgive Bernie Madoff? No
New York City :: NY :: USA | 9 months ago
Credibility No," the 80-year-old told a panel assembled Thursday by Conde Nast's Portfolio Magazine at New York's 21 Club to discuss Madoff, whose alleged victims included Wiesel and his foundation, The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity. "To forgive, first of all,...
Tags: Elie Wiesel, New York Post, Bernie Madoff
Elie Wiesel Foundation Loses Everything to Madoff
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 26, 2008 Breaking from Newsmax.com by Biodun Iginla, BBC News U.S. Jews Fear Madoff Case Stokes Anti-Semitism POSTED BY BIODUNIGINLA AT 2:26 AM LABELS: BBC NEWS. BIODUN IGINLA, ELIE WIESEL, ERNIE...
Tags: BBC NEWS. BIODUN IGINLA, ELIE WIESEL, ERNIE MADOFF, PONZI SCHEME
Madoff Fraud Wipes out Wiesenthal Centers Assets
Niš :: Serbia | 11 months ago
Credibility IsraelNN.com) Assets of the Elie Wiesnethal Foundation for Humanity have been wiped out by the $50 million Bernard Madoff fraud uncovered two weeks ago, according to the foundation's website. "We are writing to inform you that the Elie Wiesel Foundation...
Tags: madoff, fraud, Bernard Madoff Investment Securities, madoff fraud, million dollars, elie wiesel
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