3 posts tagged “family”
I heard this on the local news this morning and my stomach turned over with anger and sadness.
What is wrong with people? How can you "deny" the Holocaust? How is it that people can be so stupid, so hateful, so heartless? How could anyone try to physically harm a 78-year-old man, especially a heroic man like Elie Wiesel? In San Francisco no less?!
Police Investigate Assault Of Holocaust Survivor Wiesel
POSTED: 6:31 am PST February 10, 2007UPDATED: 6:37 am PST February 10, 2007
SAN FRANCISCO -- Police are investigating an incident in which Nobel Peace laureate and Holocaust scholar Eli Wiesel was roughed up and dragged from an elevator, possibly by a Holocaust denier, during a peace conference at a San Francisco hotel last week.Police said the assailant approached Wiesel in an elevator Feb. 1 at the Argent Hotel and requested an interview. When Wiesel consented to talk in the hotel's lobby, the man insisted it be done in a hotel room and dragged the 78-year-old off the elevator on the sixth floor, police Sgt. Neville Gittens said. The assailant fled after Wiesel began to scream, and Wiesel went to the lobby and called police.
Gittens said police have launched a criminal investigation. He said investigators were aware of a posting at an anti-Semitic Web site in which a man claimed responsibility for the attack, but declined to comment further. The Web site is registered in Australia. Australian police said that they had not received a request from U.S. officials seeking help in the investigation.
Wiesel couldn't be immediately reached for comment at Boston University, where he teaches, or through his institute in New York. Wiesel, who survived the Nazi death camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald during World War II, has worked for human rights in many parts of the world and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986.
Copyright 2007 by KTVU.com. The Associated Press contributed to this report. All rights reserved.
The news report I heard this morning said it was thought that the attacker was connect to those idiots that claim the Holocaust did not happen.
Tell that to her. (linked to Neighborhood-only post because it has family photos).
My sister Nancy (who has yet to accept my Vox invitations!) has become quite a good cook. Most importantly, she really enjoys it as a creative outlet and has one of those brains that remembers everything she sees or hears. Just ask her the name of some obscure character on any 1970s television show, or ask her what book it was that I whipped at her head breaking the mirror she was standing in front of curling her hair when we were teenagers sharing the same bedroom.
Anyway, we got to talking a couple of weeks ago about her relatively new-found love of cooking and her vast knowledge base of information that her friends and family tap into for questions like "what's the difference between a lime and a key lime" and I suggested that she needed a blog to put it all down in one easy to share place.
She hasn't actually said that she'll start her own cooking blog yet, but I'm convinced she should. So I told her I'd send her some TypePad and Vox blogs for inspiration. Showing her how easy it is to post my meager kitchen adventures, I also said I'd help her step up either a TypePad or Vox blog as soon as she's ready.
So here's where you, my fellow life bloggers, can help. I sent her an email with a few links (below), but I'd love her to have more inspiration from everyday real people to draw from. So comment below with your favorite "foodie" blogs and I'll make another attempt to get her on Vox to read this post and it's comments.
Thanks to you all for your help.
-- Patty (badgering inspiring my family to blog using Six Apart tools, one person at a time)
These are the links I sent her this morning:
A summary of recent food and beverage blogs featured on TypePad
This is a fun Vox post. 50 things to eat before you die!
A Vox explore search for "recipe"
