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at The 92nd Street Y, New York. Supported by The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity
Oct 06, 2010
On the evening after the Conference of Nobel Laureates, Professor Wiesel and David Axelrod, who first met at the inauguration of President Obama in 2009, sit down for a conversation between two friends. They talk about divisiveness in America, incivility in presidential campaigns, society’s need to respect language, the black plague of fanaticism, building a center for interfaith, the importance of educational reform and healthcare. Professor Wiesel calls for President Obama to appeal for the release of Gilad Shalit and articulates his idea that the Iranian President Ahmadinejad be arrested and tried for crimes against humanity. Mr. Axelrod reflects upon how conscious he was, when he stood in ceremony with President Obama in Moscow, of his incredible father-son journey. His father had been driven out of Eastern Europe by pogroms and he, the son, returned as a chief strategist for the president. A similarly extraordinary plot twist in history occurred when Professor Wiesel returned to Buchenwald as advisor and companion to the first African-American President of the United States.
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