As many as 10,000 people, most of them young, waited patiently in the breezy cold the last Monday in April for the blare of the shofar to signal the start of the march. Mr. Wiesel was to light one of six torches at the climactic ceremony, a torch dedicated to his father's memory, and to say a few words.
“His father was the greatest Jewish personality of his time,” said Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, head of the pro-Israeli World Values Network, who also marched. “And now, with his father's death, he is the inheritor of his father's legacy.”
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