Dear Editor, Last week, Studlife elected to run an ad by the David Horowitz Freedom Center on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Several editorials opined on the subject, and stated that they believed the paper erred in doing such.

Holocaust survivor, human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel will deliver the Commencement address, Chancellor Mark Wrighton announced Tuesday evening. The Commencement will take place at 8:30 a.m. on May 20 in the Brookings Quadrangle. The ceremony will be the University’s 150^th commencement. Wiesel will receive an honorary degree from the University.

When we typically think of Jewish response to the Holocaust, we envision the Jews, to use the traditional metaphor, as sheep being led to the slaughter. In many if not most cases, Jews did not actively, violently resist the systematic mass murder of their relatives, friends, and ultimately themselves. But resistance took many forms during the Holocaust.

Stanlee Stahl, the executive vice president of the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous, will discuss the topic of Righteous Gentiles as the keynote speaker for the University’s observance of Yom Hashoah, the Day of Remembrance. In her speech, at 6 p.m. on Wednesday in Seigle Hall L006, Stahl plans to discuss the Righteous Gentiles, who were rescuers in Poland during the Holocaust.

T.J. Leyden, a former enlisted Marine Corps soldier and neo-Nazi activist for 15 years who now speaks out against the skinhead movement, came to the Washington University campus on Tuesday to speak about the nature of racist groups and their use of new media for recruitment purposes.

Rating: 3/5 stars Directed by Edward Zwick Starring Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber Has anyone else noticed the recent influx of Holocaust movies? Already the backdrop for reunions (Kate Winslet and Ralph Fiennes in “The Reader”) and reinventions (Tom Cruise in “Valkyrie”), the Holocaust now provides director Edward Zwick with “Defiance,” a movie with a great [...]