On this week’s show, Clark University Dean Douglas Little delivered a lecture titled “Innocents Abroad? Building America’s New Empire in the Middle East.” This lecture was the second in a series of weekly lectures hosted by the African American Studies Center at Boston University.
Dean Little pointed out how American culture fosters inaccurate images of the [...]

On this week’s show, Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel talked on “Anti-Semitism: Old and New,” as part of the third and last lecture of his annual lecture series on “The Fascination with Jewish Tales.”
In this lecture, Wiesel pointed out that anti-Semitism still exists and is growing, especially in Europe. He also emphasized that he does not [...]

On this week’s show, Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel delivered the second of his annual three lectures on “The Fascination with Jewish Tales.” The topic of this year’s second lecture was “In the Talmud: War and Peace and Resistance to the Enemy.”
Wiesel emphasized the importance of peace in the Jewish tradition and the necessity for resisting [...]

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Ian McDonald, financial reporter for the Wall Street Journal
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On this week’s show, Nobel Prize winning author and Boston University professor Elie Wiesel spoke on the Bible’s King Josiah in the first of this year’s three lectures on “The Fascination with Jewish Tales.”
Wiesel focused on the Bible’s story of Josiah who destroyed forbidden idols to relate to our modern era’s idolatry of leaders, movie [...]