On the day of the Kiryat Menachem suicide bus bombing, Professor Wiesel explores the topic of caring. Defining care as a readiness to intervene in someone else’s life, Professor Wiesel argues that it is both a religious obligation and the cornerstone of secular religion, known today as human rights. Further, he defines the choice to avoid involvement rather than cruelty as inhuman. He illustrates his ideas with examples from his latest book, The Judges and shows how some stories about the past pertain more to the present. As a member of a generation that learned the danger of an absence of caring, Professor Wiesel questions whether the war ended in 1945. Having studied the history, psychology and politics of terrorism, Professor Wiesel is greatly troubled by the innovation of contemporary suicide killers to target children