Posted on July 3, 2016 at 10:31 pm
Elie Wiesel private funeral took place Sunday morning
Outside the Orthodox 5th Avenue Synagogue on July 3, 2016, Wiesel’s coffin is placed into the back of the hearse. Wiesel died in New York on July 2nd at age 87. KENA BETANCUR/AFP/Getty Images
Elie Wiesel is already in the ground. Seems so fast, but is in keeping with the Jewish tradition of burying a person with expediency, according to the New York Times.
A hearse was seen outside the Orthodox Jewish synagogue and mourners were arriving around 10 a.m. Among them was former national director of the Anti-Defamation League Abraham Foxman, as reported by CBS.
From the NYTimes –
The funeral was a gathering of his family and close friends, held on Sunday at a synagogue on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Inside the Orthodox Fifth Avenue Synagogue, about 100 people attended the ceremony. In a wheelchair, his widow, Marion, listened as Mr. Wiesel was eulogized by his son Elisha, a partner at Goldman Sachs. A young grandson, Elijah, also spoke about his grandfather. In attendance was Sheila Johnson Robbins, a member of the board of the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity.
Around noon, the coffin with Mr. Wiesel’s body was wheeled from the synagogue surrounded by a dozen mourners, a simple pine box that is customary in Jewish funerals, a blue velvet cloth draped over it. Later that day, he was interred at Sharon Gardens cemetery, in the Westchester County town of Valhalla. At the burial in Valhalla on Sunday afternoon, family members and friends shoveled dirt onto the coffin, as is Jewish tradition.
Here you can see the unadorned pine wood box with blue velvet covering that holds Wiesel’s remains as it is placed into a waiting hearse outside the Fifth Avenue Synagogue on July 3, 2016 in New York. KENA BETANCUR/AFP/Getty Images)
From the New York Daily News –
Inside the small sanctuary, Wiesel’s son struggled with his father’s death.
“I thought I was ready for this,” he said. “I thought I prepared myself. But I wasn’t ready. The newspapers were ready.”
Unlike his father, Shlomo Elisha Wiesel said he was not a man of faith.
“My father questioned God’s decisions,” he said. “I questioned his existence.”
“So can someone please help me? How is my father right now sending me his love while he’s no longer alive?” he asked as tears rolled down his face.
“Like Moses, my father did not want to die,” his son added. “He wanted to walk farther with all of us into the new century. But he took comfort in knowing a new generation would move forward his work.”
From People Magazine –
Also at the funeral, Wiesel’s son Elisha, a partner at Goldman Sachs, spoke about his father’s compassionate character to help others.
“My father raised his voice to presidents and prime ministers when he felt issues on the world stage demanded action. But those who knew him in private life had the pleasure of experiencing a gentle and devout man who was always interested in others, and whose quiet voice moved them to better themselves,” he said in a statement.
“I will hear that voice for the rest of my life, and hope and pray that I will continue to earn the unconditional love and trust he always showed me.”
A private gathering of about 100 family members and friends come at short notice to mourn Elie Wiesel’s passing inside the Orthodox 5th Avenue Synagogue Sunday morning. [photo courtesy People magazine]
Strangely, during the funeral, a man walking in Central Park, which is close by the synagogue, stepped on a device on the ground that exploded and blew up his foot! You can read about it here. He is now said to be a tourist.
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5 Comments to Elie Wiesel private funeral took place Sunday morning
by eah
On July 4, 2016 at 8:41 am
Wiesel’s son Elisha, a partner at Goldman Sachs
How interesting.
by Carolyn
On July 4, 2016 at 9:08 am
We’ve known that all along. I reported on it several years ago.
He’s also a Jewish atheist. Ending the line of observant Hasidic males. But Wiesel’s sister Hilda had a son.
It appears he is married to Lynn Bartner-Wiesel, age 51. Elisha Wiesel is 44 … 7 years younger than his wife, or at least the mother of his child. Lynn was a massage therapist from Connecticut and is now a mama at home. The funeral articles mentioned grandson Elijah but never a daughter-in-law. Did mention a step-daughter. So something is not Kosher with Elisha.
At My Life there is a picture of Lynn Bartner-Wiesel and her son. https://www.mylife.com/lynn-bartnerwiesel/lynnbartnerwiesel?userMode=0
Here it is: http://www.zoominfo.com/p/Elisha-Wiesel/240328710
ELISHA WIESEL, the son of writer, professor, and Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel, is the associate producer of And God Created Great Whales . Elisha is the Chief Risk Officer of the Securities Division of Goldman Sachs and earned his BS in Computer Science from Yale University in 1994. He and his wife, Lynn, live in New York City with their son, Elijah, and daughter Shira.
He is also: Long Term Member, Council on Foreign Relations
I think this page is pretty up to date. So maybe wife Lynn stayed home with the young daughter.
by Ginger
On July 4, 2016 at 12:54 pm
Do you know where someone might be able to read the Eric Hunt trial? Well any online sources?
by Carolyn
On July 4, 2016 at 1:36 pm
No. Try this: https://oag.ca.gov/consumers/general/pra
by B. Holst
On July 5, 2016 at 1:28 am
The irony is that – in the long run – Wiesel’s “compassionate character to help others” (meaning his fellow jews) will actually turn people of all races against them now as their obnoxious web of lies keeps on unraveling.