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# Julie Shapiro

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## Julie Shapiro


![Julie Shapiro](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcc6e8a834f59f6bc/698857f7e53aba60844de4f1/julie-shapiro-time.jpg?branch=production&width=96&quality=75&auto=webp)

## Julie Shapiro


* ![Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize winning author Elie Wiesel listens during an interview with The Associated Press in Budapest, Hungary, Dec. 10, 2009.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt186e0015eb98d713/69889a7af887dc84d7e967e3/elie-wiesel-dead.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Jul 2, 2016  
### [How Elie Wiesel Responded to Losing His Life Savings to Bernie Madoff](https://time.com/4392286/elie-wiesel-dead-bernie-madoff/)  
Wiesel and his wife also lost $15 million for their foundation  
[U.S.](/section/us/)
* ![Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel gestures while talking during a White House ceremony when President Ronald Reagan presented him with the Congressional Gold Medal on April 20, 1985.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt91666abb879a8e31/69889a80ab6d7726426aa4d0/elie-wiesel-holocaust-survivor-1985.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Jul 2, 2016  
### ['He Made This World Better': Elie Wiesel Is Mourned Across the Globe](https://time.com/4392333/elie-wiesel-dead-global-mourning/)  
"Elie Wiesel served as a ray of light and an example of humanity that believes in the goodness of ma...  
[WORLD](/section/world/)
* ![The iconic red rectangular TIME logo with the word 'TIME' in white, bold, uppercase serif letters.](/images/missing-image-1x1.svg)  
Jun 23, 2016  
### [Buildings That Power Themselves](https://time.com/4379469/buildings-that-power-themselves/)  
[WORLD](/section/world/)
* ![The iconic red rectangular TIME logo with the word 'TIME' in white, bold, uppercase serif letters.](/images/missing-image-1x1.svg)  
Jun 16, 2016  
### [The Floating Waterfall](https://time.com/4371175/the-floating-waterfall/)  
[WORLD](/section/world/)
* ![FILE - In this June 18, 2015 photo, President Barack Obama pauses while speaking in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, on the church shooting in Charleston, S.C., prior to his departure to Los Angeles. After nine black parish](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf8d0782c300b15cc/6988975fbc6cfc7ff03dd5a8/obama.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Jun 12, 2016  
### [Watch Live: President Obama Speaks on Orlando Nightclub Shooting](https://time.com/4365389/orlando-shooting-nightclub-president-obama/)  
The President addresses America's deadliest mass shooting, in which 50 people were killed  
[POLITICS](/section/politics/)  
* ![FILES-US-IT-LIFESTYLE-MEDIA](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt04dd43281a1c4675/69889606524fc07b3adf83f2/facebook-ads-microphone.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Jun 12, 2016  
### [Facebook Activates Safety Check for Orlando Nightclub Shooting](https://time.com/4365368/orlando-shooting-nightclub-facebook-safety-check/)  
Facebook users in Orlando can notify friends and family that they are safe  
[U.S.](/section/us/)
* ![Law enforcement officials work at the Pulse Orlando nightclub following a fatal shooting Sunday, June 12, 2016, in Orlando, Fla. . \(AP Photo/Chris O'Meara\)](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt20c761cfde5d5f95/69889768a988ca112c6b832a/pulse-club-orlando-shooting.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Jun 12, 2016  
### [Orlando Nightclub Attack Was Deadliest Mass Shooting in U.S. History](https://time.com/4365325/orlando-shooting-pulse-nightclub-deadliest-history/)  
50 people were killed and another 53 were injured  
[U.S.](/section/us/)
* ![Jermaine Towns, left, and Brandon Shuford wait down the street from a multiple shooting at a nightclub in Orlando, Fla., Sunday, June 12, 2016. Towns said his brother was in the club at the time. A gunman opened fire at a nightclub in central Florida, an](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbe456cb73e153702/6988976b428a9e45d1cd300e/orland-shooting-families.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Jun 12, 2016  
### [How to Help the Victims of the Pulse Orlando Nightclub Shooting](https://time.com/4365295/orlando-shooting-pulse-nightclub-victims-help/)  
There is an urgent need for blood donations  
[U.S.](/section/us/)
* ![Police officers direct family members away from a shooting at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla., on June 12, 2016.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt856076d31c9bac00/69889768cf40a8c915c43965/pulse-shooting-orland_wong.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Jun 12, 2016  
### [What to Know About the Pulse Nightclub Shooting in Orlando](https://time.com/4365260/orlando-shooting-pulse-nightclub-what-know/)  
50 people were killed and 53 injured in what authorities are investigating as an act of terrorism  
[U.S.](/section/us/)
* ![The iconic red rectangular TIME logo with the word 'TIME' in white, bold, uppercase serif letters.](/images/missing-image-1x1.svg)  
May 26, 2016  
### [The Sea-Horse Villa](https://time.com/4348951/the-sea-horse-villa/)  
[WORLD](/section/world/)  
* ![The iconic red rectangular TIME logo with the word 'TIME' in white, bold, uppercase serif letters.](/images/missing-image-1x1.svg)  
May 19, 2016  
### [The Forest Hotel](https://time.com/4341418/the-forest-hotel/)  
[WORLD](/section/world/)
* ![Indian startup Bakeys makes edible cutlery to reduce landfill waste](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf0e8e280e9df0f17/698892d3428a9e33c0cd2967/edible-cutlery-from-bakeys-cuts-waste.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
May 12, 2016  
### [Edible Cutlery](https://time.com/4327416/edible-cutlery/)  
[IDEAS](/section/ideas/)
* ![](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta5a875b982e06d7b/698892162dce01369f9e8f2c/mothers-day.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
May 6, 2016  
### [These Are the Most Popular Mother's Day Gifts in Every State](https://time.com/4319879/mothers-day-gifts-cards-state/)  
From cake pops in Hawaii to fitness trackers in New Jersey
* ![Planet Mercury transiting across the face of the Sun was taken on May 7, 2003.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blted6f3d0ddd011c0a/6988917b5f570f8032b20bbe/transit-of-mercury.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
May 5, 2016  
### [Watch Mercury Cross in Front of the Sun](https://time.com/4315228/mercury-transit-sun-watch-live-stream-online/)  
The last transit of Mercury occurred in 2006  
[SCIENCE](/section/science/)
* ![The iconic red rectangular TIME logo with the word 'TIME' in white, bold, uppercase serif letters.](/images/missing-image-1x1.svg)  
May 5, 2016  
### [Bubble Drone](https://time.com/4319117/bubble-drone/)  
This helium-filled concept, from Germany-based Festo's Bionic Learning Network, is designed to inter...  
[WORLD](/section/world/)

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