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The Blue Card, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to aiding Holocaust survivors, will host its 83rd benefit gala on Monday, April 8, 2019, at Center415..

The event will be hosted by Andy Cohen, the Emmy Award-winning television producer and author best known as the host and executive producer of Bravo’s “Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen.”

The evening will include the presentation of awards to individuals and groups dedicated to supporting the needs of Holocaust survivors and advancing human rights worldwide. The honorees include: Joe Biden, 47th Vice President of the United States; Stanley Bergman and Dr. Marion Bergman of Henry Schein, Inc. and the Henry Schein Cares Foundation; David Miliband, President and CEO of the International Rescue Committee and former UK Foreign Secretary; New York Foundation for Eldercare; and past participants in The Blue Card’s Bnei Mitzvah Project, a program where Bar and Bat Mitzvah students engage with...

When his beloved daughter shot herself with his favorite gun, Serbian General Ratko Mladic lost his mind, drenching the Balkans in blood. His capture last week may finally bring justice for his victims. In this week's Newsweek, veteran war reporter Janine di Giovanni dissects the man behind the genocide and marks the importance of his arrest.

For years, during the grim and seemingly endless Balkan wars of the 1990s, Ratko Mladic appeared a mysterious, almost mythic figure, a stout and red-faced general in combat fatigues, who was rarely seen by anyone but his most trusted men. To many Serbs, he was a hero, a defender of national pride and values. To the families of his victims, he was a coldblooded killer who led his soldiers not into battle, but into a state of carnage during the disintegration of Yugoslavia. While all sides-Muslim, Croats, and Serbs-were guilty of heinous crimes, it...

What candidates' wives want. What we demand of them. In this week's Newsweek, Michelle Cottle on the state of the political spouse. Plus, Cindy McCain says "spouses get a bad rap."

On May 12, some 1,000 Republicans and a truckload of local and national journalists descended on the Jw Marriott in downtown Indianapolis for the state Gop spring dinner. The draw? Keynote speaker Cheri Daniels, wife of governor-and possible presidential candidate-Mitch Daniels.

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It didn't matter what Cheri had to say so much as that she had agreed to speak at all. Up to now, Indiana's first lady has declined to take part in her husband's political quest. In fact, the final hurdle to Mitch's joining the White House race is said to be Cheri's anxiety about their personal life getting shredded like a chunk of ripe Parmesan.

It is not an unreasonable fear.

Hillary Clinton called him "my biggest headache" but also an "inspiration," President Obama said Holbrooke "made a difference"-Howard Kurtz reports from a sparkling, humor-filled tribute that somehow matched the spirit of the man. Plus, Newsweek's report on Holbrooke's war with the White House.

It was somehow fitting that it took two presidents, a vice president, a secretary of State, a Joint Chiefs chairman, two heads of state, and 20 foreign ministers to pay tribute today to Richard Holbrooke, a man of boundless energy, unbridled ambition, and maddening contradictions.

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Amid the splendor of the Kennedy Center, the bull-headed diplomat who tried most recently to solve the puzzle of Afghanistan and Pakistan was remembered as an indomitable force who often had little time or patience for niceties of domestic life.

The two-hour service had an upbeat, gently humorous tone sprinkled with superlatives,...

Richard Holbrooke was a larger-than-life figure on the U.S. political landscape who shaped his times. Jonathan Alter reflects on his impact on Bosnia, Afghanistan, and Foggy Bottom.

The tributes to Richard Holbrooke now pouring in are out of proportion to the various positions he held over the years as an assistant secretary and ambassador. They are more befitting a head of state than a "special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan," arguably the most grueling and thankless job in the whole government.

And yet Holbrooke belongs to a tiny group of diplomats-men like George Kennan and Chip Bohlen-who shaped their times as much as any secretary of state.

With the WikiLeaks revelations casting a harsh light on the work of diplomats, Holbrooke's career is a useful reminder that we depend on indefatigable men and women working killer hours with killer travel to keep us all from getting killed by war or terrorism.

When she was six years old, Kati Marton—author, news correspondent, and human rights advocate—watched the Hungarian secret police arrest her parents, both of them journalists who were declared “enemies of the people” by the communist state. When the family immigrated to the United States two years later in 1957, her mother and father were welcomed as heroes, although neither of them would speak openly about their past. In her new memoir, Enemies of the People: My Family's Journey to America (Simon & Schuster), Marton chronicles her determination to find out the truth about her family’s history, having made several trips to Budapest to examine her parents’ police files. In this exclusive excerpt, Marton recalls the emotional toll that came with her newfound discoveries, which revealed secret affairs, betrayals by family friends, acts of torture and brutality, but a deep family love that transcended the rest. Listen to the podcast after the jump.