| Elie Wiesel — or to be more accurate, Elie Wiesel's likeness — ended up in a place that the late Holocaust survivor could never have imagined: chiseled into stone at the National Cathedral. Wiesel's son, Elisha Wiesel, writes movingly of the decision to accept this unlikely honor for an observant Jew who, growing up in Romania, was careful to cross the street when passing a church, for fear of a beating. Elisha Wiesel used the occasion of his father being honored as a "friend of the church" to emphasize a point he fears is being lost in a din of criticism about Israel and its treatment of Palestinians. "My father understood what it meant to live in a world without a Jewish state," Wiesel writes, "and he saw the anti-Zionist movement for what it was: an extension of millennia-old antisemitism, which unfortunately is becoming more common and acceptable today." Not everyone will agree with that assessment, but Elie Wiesel would be proud that his son stated it so unsparingly.  (Matt McClain/The Washington Post) How do I help our Christian friends understand that Jews still face blood libels today? By Elisha Wiesel ● Read more » | | | | It's beginning to feel like 2010 all over again. By Dana Milbank ● Read more » | | | | Democrats are less motivated than Republicans — and voter exhaustion could diminish turnout. By Karen Tumulty ● Read more » | | | | It's time for progressives in Congress to accept victory and compromise on a social spending bill before they hurt both Biden and themselves. By David Ignatius ● Read more » | | | "I want to change hemispheres," Iohan Gueorguiev wrote. "Sleep with unfamiliar stars. And let the journey unfold before me." By David Von Drehle ● Read more » | | | | Steven E. Koonin is appalled by the misuse of science to persuade rather than inform, and by the near-hysterical pressure to stifle and vilify any deviation from the dogma of the day. By Mitch Daniels ● Read more » | | | | To get this transformative win across the finish line, Democrats must agree to spend smarter, not bigger. By Ben Ritz ● Read more » | | | | The GOP's ongoing embrace of Trump deserves to be decisively repudiated. By Greg Sargent ● Read more » | | | As president, he was about far more than just low taxes and shrinking government. By Henry Olsen ● Read more » | | | | Bringing down prescription drug prices is absurdly popular, and Democrats have been promising to do it. By Paul Waldman ● Read more » | | | | CNN host Brian Stelter asked a provocative but slightly off-base question about a storied American media institution. By Erik Wemple ● Read more » | | | |
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