Ariel Burger is a rabbi, teacher, author, and artist. He is a student of Elie Wiesel, and is writing a book about lessons from Wiesel’s classroom (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018).
Ariel Burger
By Ariel Burger
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Community Elie Wiesel Was No Sellout
Ron Rosenbaum’s September 29 article in Tablet Magazine, Elie Wiesel’s Secret, is an exercise in misguided sensationalism built solely on the author’s formidable powers of projection and distortion. I found it perplexing – and its subject, Elie Wiesel, with whom I worked closely for several years as his TA at Boston University – utterly unrecognizable….
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Opinion My Last Meeting With Elie Wiesel
I just heard the news that my teacher Elie Wiesel has left the world. For several years, I have said Havdalah at the close of the Sabbath and immediately checked the news, wondering if I would learn that this has happened. This has become a ritual of anxious anticipation, and then – every week before…
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