On this week’s show, award-winning poet Eavan Boland, who was introduced by former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky, delivered a lecture as part of the Robert Lowell Memorial Lecture Series at Boston University.
Hosted by the Creative Writing Program, the Robert Lowell Memorial Lecture Series is a series of high-profile poetry readings celebrating the legacy of [...]

This week’s show featured the third and final installment of the 2005 lecture series “The Fascination with Jewish Tales” by teacher, author, and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Elie Wiesel.
In this lecture, Wiesel, who was introduced by the director of the BU Hillel House Rabbi Joseph Polak, read excerpts from his book “The Time of the [...]

This show featured the second of three installments from the 2005 lecture series “The Fascination with Jewish Tales” by teacher, author, and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Elie Wiesel.
In this second lecture, Wiesel talked about “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion” and condemned them as “an insult to any intelligent reader.” Wiesel also dedicated a [...]

This week’s show featured the first of three installments from the 2005 lecture series “The Fascination with Jewish Tales” by teacher, author, and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Elie Wiesel.
In this first lecture entitled “Why Pray,” Wiesel argued that “people must bring to prayer the fullness of their experience — including doubt, disappointment, or even anger [...]