We Need Elie Wiesel’s ‘Against Despair’ Right Now

The late Professor Elie Wiesel, speaking at the Algemeiner’s 40th anniversary gala, on April 22, 2013. Photo: Sarah Rogers / Algemeiner.

As antisemitism is again surging across the world, it can feel frightening and isolating to be Jewish.

The familiar question returns: how do we hold on to our identity and our pride, when the world seems intent on testing both?

Every generation of Jews has faced its own test of endurance. Ours is unfolding now, as antisemitism again plagues our streets...