Elie Wiesel to be first modern Jew honored with bust in US National Cathedral – Nobel laureate and Holocaust memoirist joins fellow members-of-the-tribe Jesus and some apostles, along with humanitarians Mother Teresa, Rosa Parks, and Oscar Romero in DC shrine | Timesofisrael

1 2 3 4WASHINGTON (JTA) — Washington’s National Cathedral is honoring Elie Wiesel, the Nobel Peace laureate and Holocaust memoirist, with a bust, the first Jew to be so honored.
Or maybe not the first, depending on where you sit. “I would say he is the first 20th-century Jewish person,” the cathedral’s dean, Rev. Randy Hollerith, said after a reporter asked how Wiesel came to be the first Jew to earn a sculpted depiction at the cathedral.