{"id":30976,"date":"2016-07-02T22:51:01","date_gmt":"2016-07-03T04:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=30976"},"modified":"2016-07-02T22:51:01","modified_gmt":"2016-07-03T04:51:01","slug":"elie-wiesel-gave-the-holocaust-a-face-and-the-world-a-conscience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/elie-wiesel-gave-the-holocaust-a-face-and-the-world-a-conscience\/","title":{"rendered":"Elie Wiesel gave the Holocaust a face and the world a conscience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By SARAH WILDMAN<\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON (JTA) \u2014 Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate who became a leading icon of Holocaust remembrance and a global symbol of conscience, died on Saturday at 87. His death was the result of natural causes, the World Jewish Congress said in a statement.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_30977\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/obamawiesel-1024x682.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30977\" class=\"wp-image-30977 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/obamawiesel-1024x682-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"obamawiesel-1024x682\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/obamawiesel-1024x682-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/obamawiesel-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/200;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30977\" class=\"wp-image-30977 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/obamawiesel-1024x682-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"obamawiesel-1024x682\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/obamawiesel-1024x682-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/obamawiesel-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-30977\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Barack Obama lunches with Elie Wiesel in the Oval Office\u2019s private dining room, May 4, 2010. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>A philosopher, professor and author of such seminal works of Holocaust literature as \u201cNight\u201d and \u201cDawn,\u201d Wiesel, perhaps more than any other figure, came to embody the legacy of the Holocaust and the worldwide community of survivors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have tried to keep memory alive,\u201d Wiesel said at the Nobel peace prize ceremony in 1986. \u201cI have tried to fight those who would forget. Because if we forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Often, he would say the \u201copposite of love is not hate, it is indifference.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The quest to challenge indifference was a driving force in Wiesel\u2019s writing, advocacy and public presence. Though he considered himself primarily a writer, by the end of the 1970s he had settled into the role of moral compass, a touchstone for presidents and a voice that challenged easy complacency about history.<\/p>\n<p>Wiesel spent the majority of his public life speaking of the atrocities he had witnessed and asking the public to consider other acts of cruelty around the world, though he drew the line at direct comparisons with the Holocaust. \u201cI am always advocating the utmost care and prudence when one uses that word.\u201d he told JTA in 1980.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe State of Israel and the Jewish People bitterly mourn the passing of Elie Wiesel,\u201d Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement Saturday. \u201cElie, the wordsmith, expressed through his extraordinary personality and fascinating books the triumph of the human spirit over cruelty and evil.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He won a myriad of awards for his work, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Congressional Gold Medal and the National Jewish Book Award. \u201cNight\u201d is now standard reading in high schools across America. In 2006, it was chosen as a book club selection by Oprah Winfrey and, nearly half a century after it was first published, spent more than a year atop the best-seller list. He would also take Winfrey to Auschwitz, that same year. Writing for the New York Times Book Review in 2008, Rachel Donadio <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/01\/20\/books\/review\/Donadio-t.html?_r=1\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> that it had become \u201ca case study in how a book helped created a genre, how a writer became an icon and how the Holocaust was absorbed into the American experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_30972\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/GA-wiesel-and-sharansky.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30972\" class=\"wp-image-30972 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/GA-wiesel-and-sharansky-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel, left, and human rights icon and Chairman of the Executive at The Jewish Agency for Israel Natan Sharansky, right,  discuss the free Soviet Jewry movement and marking the 25th anniversary of its pinnacle event The March on Washington in 1987.  The discussion took place during the main plenary session at the General Assembly of the Jewish Federations in North America which takes place in Baltimore, Maryland. Monday, Nov. 12, 2012  Photo: David Karp\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/GA-wiesel-and-sharansky-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/GA-wiesel-and-sharansky-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/200;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30972\" class=\"wp-image-30972 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/GA-wiesel-and-sharansky-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel, left, and human rights icon and Chairman of the Executive at The Jewish Agency for Israel Natan Sharansky, right,  discuss the free Soviet Jewry movement and marking the 25th anniversary of its pinnacle event The March on Washington in 1987.  The discussion took place during the main plenary session at the General Assembly of the Jewish Federations in North America which takes place in Baltimore, Maryland. Monday, Nov. 12, 2012  Photo: David Karp\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/GA-wiesel-and-sharansky-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/GA-wiesel-and-sharansky-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-30972\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel, left, and human rights icon and Chairman of the Executive at The Jewish Agency for Israel Natan Sharansky, right, at the 2012 General Assembly of the JFNA. (Photo: David Karp)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThere is no way to talk about the last half century of Holocaust consciousness without giving Wiesel a front and center role,\u201d said Michael Berenbaum, a professor at the American Jewish University in Los Angeles and former director of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum\u2019s research institute. \u201cWhat he did, extraordinarily, was to use the Nobel Prize as a tool to call attention to things, and as a vehicle to scream louder, shout more, agitate more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Born in the town of Sighet, Transylvania, then and now a part of Romania, in 1928, Wiesel was deported to Auschwitz in 1944 with his family. He was 15. His mother and one of his sisters would disappear forever when the family was forced aboard the cattle cars, murdered immediately. His father, who traveled with him to the camps, died of dysentery and starvation in Buchenwald before liberation. Two sisters would survive the war.<\/p>\n<p>In \u201cNight,\u201d Wiesel describes pinching his face to see if he is dreaming when he sees the murders of infants.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn those places, in one night one becomes old,\u201d Wiesel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wbur.org\/news\/2014\/02\/10\/elie-wiesel-visionaries\" target=\"_blank\">told<\/a> NPR in 2014. \u201cWhat one saw in one night, generations of men and women had not seen in their own entire lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_30978\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Buchenwald_-Wiesel.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30978\" class=\"wp-image-30978 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Buchenwald_-Wiesel-300x243.jpg\" alt=\"Buchenwald_-Wiesel\" width=\"300\" height=\"243\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Buchenwald_-Wiesel-300x243.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Buchenwald_-Wiesel.jpg 1024w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/243;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30978\" class=\"wp-image-30978 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Buchenwald_-Wiesel-300x243.jpg\" alt=\"Buchenwald_-Wiesel\" width=\"300\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Buchenwald_-Wiesel-300x243.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Buchenwald_-Wiesel.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-30978\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elie Wiesel is seen on the second row of bunks, seventh from the left at Buchenwald as it was liberated.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Wiesel was liberated from Buchenwald in 1945. He went on to study at the Sorbonne and moved to New York at the end of the 1950s, where he lived in relative obscurity. He worked hard to find a publisher for \u201cNight,\u201d which initially sold poorly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe truth is in the 1950s and in the early 1960s there was little interest and willingness to listen to survivors,\u201d said Wiesel\u2019s longtime friend Rabbi Irving \u201cYitz\u201d<a href=\"http:\/\/rabbiirvinggreenberg.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Greenberg<\/a>, who had read a copy of \u201cNight\u201d in Israel in the early 1960s. \u201cIn 1963, someone told me this author is alive and well in New York City and I somehow managed to find him and go see him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wiesel was \u201cgaunt\u201d and \u201cworking as a freelance reporter, a stringer, for a French newspaper, an Israeli newspaper and a Yiddish newspaper \u2014 and for none of the above was he making a living,\u201d Greenberg said.<\/p>\n<p>Greenberg was determined to help Wiesel find work. \u201cHe had this magnetic presence,\u201d he said. \u201cHe was quiet but with tremendous force and he felt the vividness the Holocaust had a message.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the late 1960s Wiesel finally began to emerge as one of the preeminent voices in Holocaust literature. By the end of his career, he had written some 50 books.<\/p>\n<p>In 1978, Wiesel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ushmm.org\/information\/about-the-museum\/presidents-commission\" target=\"_blank\">became<\/a> the chairman of the Presidential Committee on the Holocaust, which would ultimately recommend the building of a Holocaust museum in Washington. As his public presence grew, he began to visit the sites of other genocides. In 1980, he traveled to Cambodia. In an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jta.org\/1980\/02\/29\/archive\/special-to-the-jta-elie-wiesel-a-journey-to-cambodia\" target=\"_blank\">interview<\/a> with JTA, he called the Cambodian refugee camps \u201cspectacles of horror\u201d and noted, \u201cThat these things could happen again simply means that the world didn\u2019t learn \u2014 or that the world didn\u2019t want to learn.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 1985, Wiesel\u2019s reputation grew beyond the Jewish world when he challenged President Ronald Reagan on live television over his intention to visit a German cemetery that housed the remains of Nazi soldiers. In the Oval Office to receive the Congressional Medal of Achievement, Wiesel chastised Reagan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not your place Mr. President,\u201d Wiesel famously <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1985\/04\/20\/us\/wiesel-confronts-reagan-trip-president-visit-bergen-belsen-survivor-holocaust.html\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a>. The president visited the cemetery anyway but changed his itinerary to include a visit to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.<\/p>\n<p>Wiesel challenged the White House again in 1993, when he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/americanexperience\/features\/interview\/clinton-amanpour\/\" target=\"_blank\">charged<\/a> the newly inaugurated President Bill Clinton to do more to address the atrocities then unfolding in Yugoslavia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost people don\u2019t confront a sitting president that way, and he confronted two,\u201d said Sara Bloomfield, the museum\u2019s current director.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe saw people would listen to him,\u201d said Stuart Eizenstat, who held senior positions in multiple presidential administrations and was a key figure in the negotiation of Holocaust restitution agreements with several European governments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe became more aggressive about showing that it is not just the Holocaust, but applying lessons to rest of the world as well,\u201d Eizenstat said. \u201cHe became more active in other genocidal or world conscious issues. He wanted to use that power for the cause not just of Holocaust memory, but also to prevent genocide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the inauguration in 1993 of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Wiesel said, clearly, \u201cI don\u2019t believe there are answers. There are no answers. And this museum is not an answer; it is a question mark.\u201d That question mark, he applied to global atrocities, as well as historical ones.<\/p>\n<p>His later years saw him wade into politics. He met frequently with President Barack Obama but also loudly chastised the president for calling for an end to settlement construction and for brokering the Iran nuclear rollback-for-sanctions-relief deal, positions that led to criticism, even from long-time admirers. His very public support for Netanyahu was also questioned. Peter Beinart, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/misc\/iphone-article\/.premium-1.643037\" target=\"_blank\">writing<\/a> in Ha\u2019aretz, said: \u201cWiesel takes refuge in the Israel of his imagination, using it to block out the painful reckoning that might come from scrutinizing Israel as it actually is.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_30979\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Elie_Wiesel_and_wife_Marion_2012_Shankbone.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30979\" class=\"wp-image-30979 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Elie_Wiesel_and_wife_Marion_2012_Shankbone-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"Elie_Wiesel_and_wife_Marion_2012_Shankbone\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Elie_Wiesel_and_wife_Marion_2012_Shankbone-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Elie_Wiesel_and_wife_Marion_2012_Shankbone-1024x819.jpg 1024w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/240;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30979\" class=\"wp-image-30979 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Elie_Wiesel_and_wife_Marion_2012_Shankbone-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"Elie_Wiesel_and_wife_Marion_2012_Shankbone\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Elie_Wiesel_and_wife_Marion_2012_Shankbone-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Elie_Wiesel_and_wife_Marion_2012_Shankbone-1024x819.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-30979\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elie Wiesel and wife Marion in 2012. (Courtesy of Wikimedia)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The final years of his life also saw financial turmoil. His personal finances and $15.2 million in assets of the Elie Weisel Foundation For Humanity were invested with Bernie Madoff, who was convicted in 2009 of fraud. Wiesel\u2019s fortune and the reserves of his organization were wiped out.<\/p>\n<p>And yet he did not cease his work. Just months after the scandal broke, in June 2009, he led Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel on a trip to Auschwitz where he noted he was at his father\u2019s grave. He then gave a searing indictment of the world\u2019s continued inability to learn.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a public figure who was also the very symbol of the Holocaust survivor in America, Wiesel acted as a moral compass, his personal history lending unequalled gravity to his public remarks on genocide, anti-Semitism and other issues of injustice worldwide.\u201d said Ruth Franklin, author of \u201cA Thousand Darknesses: Lies and Truth in Holocaust Fiction.\u201d \u201cWiesel never pretended that he understood the Holocaust. He spoke of it as a horror beyond explanation, a black hole in history. As the virtual embodiment of the catch phrase \u2018never forget,\u2019 he did more than anyone else to raise awareness of the Holocaust in American life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wiesel is survived by his wife, Marion, and a son, Shlomo.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Elie%20Wiesel%20gave%20the%20Holocaust%20a%20face%20and%20the%20world%20a%20conscience\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":30977,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[144,8794,8790,8795,8788],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30976"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30980,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30976\/revisions\/30980"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}