{"id":370,"date":"2025-12-22T18:58:31","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T23:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vietnam50.us\/Home\/?page_id=370"},"modified":"2026-01-14T08:49:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T13:49:30","slug":"cora-weiss-obituary","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/vietnam50.us\/Home\/cora-weiss-obituary\/","title":{"rendered":"Cora Weiss Obituary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#cf2e2e\" class=\"has-inline-color\"><kbd>BIOGRAPHIC DETAILS<\/kbd><\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<html>\n\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\">\n<meta name=Generator content=\"Microsoft Word 15 (filtered)\">\n<style>\n<!--\n \/* Font Definitions *\/\n @font-face\n\t{font-family:\"Cambria Math\";\n\tpanose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;}\n@font-face\n\t{font-family:Calibri;\n\tpanose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}\n \/* Style Definitions *\/\n p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal\n\t{margin-top:0in;\n\tmargin-right:0in;\n\tmargin-bottom:10.0pt;\n\tmargin-left:0in;\n\tline-height:115%;\n\tfont-size:11.0pt;\n\tfont-family:\"Calibri\",sans-serif;}\n.MsoChpDefault\n\t{font-family:\"Calibri\",sans-serif;}\n.MsoPapDefault\n\t{margin-bottom:10.0pt;\n\tline-height:115%;}\n@page WordSection1\n\t{size:8.5in 11.0in;\n\tmargin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;}\ndiv.WordSection1\n\t{page:WordSection1;}\n-->\n<\/style>\n\n<\/head>\n\n<body lang=EN-US style='word-wrap:break-word'>\n\n<div class=WordSection1>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal>Source link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.democracyfornepal.com\/2006\/03\/sari-sansar-at-un.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sari Sansar At The UN<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal>CORA WEISS <\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal>777 United Nations Plaza Tel: 212-697-8945<br>\nNew York, New York 10027 Fax: 212-682-0886<br>\ncweiss@igc.org <\/p>\n\n\n<p class=MsoNormal>CORA WEISS, President, Hague Appeal for Peace, 777 United\nNations Plaza <\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal>Cora Weiss, President of the Hague Appeal for Peace, has\nbeen well known as a peace activist since the early \u201860\u2019s, when she was a\nco-founder of Women Strike for Peace which played a major role in bringing\nabout the end of nuclear testing in the atmosphere. She was a leader in the\nanti-Vietnam war movement, organized demonstrations, including the largest one\non November 15, 1969 in Washington, DC. As Co-Chair and Director of the\nCommittee of Liaison with Families of Prisoners Detained in Vietnam, she organized\nthe exchange of mail between families and POW\u2019s in Vietnam which revealed and\nnames of those alive and arranged for and accompanied some returning POW\npilots. For ten years Ms Weiss was a volunteer teacher in the NY City public\nschool system. <\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal>As a Trustee of Hampshire College, she started the campus\ncampaign to divest stocks in companies doing business in South Africa. She has\na long record of support for the United Nations, starting in the 1950\u2019s when\nshe hosted colonized Africans who were petitioning for the independence of\ntheir countries. She has devoted most of her life to the peace movement, the\nmovement for the advancement of women, and the civil rights movement. <\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal>Among Ms. Weiss\u2019 many awards are the Peace Studies Medal\nof Manhattan College and the George F. Kennan Award of the New Jersey Peace\nAction. In May of 1998 she and William Sloane Coffin were honored at The\nRiverside Church of New York on the 20th anniversary of their founding of the\nRiverside Disarmament Program which she directed for 10 years. In 1999 she was\nhonored by the Phelps Stokes Fund for her work in the \u201850s and \u201860\u2019s on Africa.\n<\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal>She is President of the International Peace Bureau,\n(Nobel Laureate 1910). Ms. Weiss participated in the Nobel Centennial Symposium\nheld in Oslo, Norway in December 2001. She is also Joint-Principal of the Peace\nBoat\u2019s Global University, an Advisory Board Member of Peace Child\nInternational\u2019s Millennium Action Fund, and Honorary Patron of the Committee on\nTeaching About the United Nations. As President of the Hague Appeal for Peace,\nshe is leading a campaign dedicated to the abolition of war. It seeks to re-focus\nour minds on the vision of a world in which violent conflict is publicly\nacknowledged as illegitimate, illegal, and fundamentally unjust. To implement\nthat vision, the Hague Appeal for Peace has launched a Global Peace Education\nCampaign. <\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal><b style=\"color:red\">RECIPIENT: <\/b><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal>Nominee, Nobel Peace Prize, 2000, 2001 <\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal>Peace Caucus U.N. Award, New York City. September 1999. <\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal>Aggrey Award of the Phelps Stokes Fund for work with\nAfrican students and liberation movements during anti-colonial years, New York\nCity. June 1998. <\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal>Leadership Award, West Side Peace Action, New York City.\nJanuary 1998. <\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal>Kairos Peace Award. Long Island Alliance for Peaceful\nAlternatives, New York. November 1997 <\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal>Peace Studies Medal, Manhattan College, New York. April\n1997 <\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal>George F. Kennan Award, New Jersey Peace Action. April\n1996. <\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal>Joseph C. Wilson Award. Rochester Association for the\nUnited Nations. <\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal>October 24, 1995. 50th Anniversary of the United Nations.\n<\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal>Lifetime Achievement Award, Peace Action National\nCongress. 1992 <\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal>Olive Branch Award. Juror 1991 <\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal>UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN AT MADISON 1952-1956, BA <\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal>HUNTER COLLEGE SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK 1956-1958 <\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal>PERSONALIA: Married to Peter Weiss, Attorney; 3 children,\n5 grandchildren <img width=32 height=32\nsrc=\"Cora_Weiss_bio_files\/image001.png\"><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal><b>ADVISORY BOARD MEMBER &#8211; PAST <\/b><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal>Alternative Security Council, Institute for Defense and\nDisarmament Studies. <\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal>Resolving Conflict Creatively Program, New York City\nBoard of Education.<\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal>Pacem in Terris Institute, Manhattan College, New York\nCity. <\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal>National Abortion Rights Action League, National Advisory\nCommittee. <\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal>Committee on Common Security. <\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal>United Nations Amendment Conference on the Nuclear Test\nBan. Testified, 1991.<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/body>\n\n<\/html>\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<html>\n\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\">\n<meta name=Generator content=\"Microsoft Word 15 (filtered)\">\n<style>\n<!--\n \/* Font Definitions *\/\n @font-face\n\t{font-family:\"Cambria Math\";\n\tpanose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;}\n@font-face\n\t{font-family:Calibri;\n\tpanose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}\n \/* Style Definitions *\/\n p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal\n\t{margin-top:0in;\n\tmargin-right:0in;\n\tmargin-bottom:10.0pt;\n\tmargin-left:0in;\n\tline-height:115%;\n\tfont-size:11.0pt;\n\tfont-family:\"Calibri\",sans-serif;}\n.MsoChpDefault\n\t{font-family:\"Calibri\",sans-serif;}\n.MsoPapDefault\n\t{margin-bottom:10.0pt;\n\tline-height:115%;}\n@page WordSection1\n\t{size:8.5in 11.0in;\n\tmargin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;}\ndiv.WordSection1\n\t{page:WordSection1;}\n-->\n<\/style>\n\n<\/head>\n\n<body lang=EN-US style='word-wrap:break-word'>\n\n<div class=WordSection1>\n<p class=MsoNormal><b style=\"color:red\">ACTIVITIES: <\/b><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal>HAGUE APPEAL FOR PEACE, President, 1996-present. <\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal>INTERNATIONAL PEACE BUREAU, Geneva. President, 2000 -,\nRepresentative to U.N. with ECOSOC status. <\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal>NOBEL CENTENNIAL SYMPOSIUM, Oslo, Norway. December 2001.\nSpeaker. <\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal>PEACE BOAT\u2019S GLOBAL UNIVERSITY, Tokyo. Joint-Principal,\n1999-present. <\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal>PEACE ACTION, (Formerly SANE\/Freeze). Chaired Commission\nto merge SANE and Freeze; Co-founder, SANE\/Freeze; Board Member, 1986-2000;\nInternational Representative, 1988-2000; Member, Executive Committee,\n1986-1994. <\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal>UNITED NATIONS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INFORMATION, NON-\nGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS ASSOCIATED WITH THE UN, New York. Member, Executive\nCommittee, 1997-2000; Planning Committee Annual DPI\/NGO Conference, 2000. <\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal>PEACE CHILD INTERNATIONAL\u2019S MILLENNIUM ACTION FUND,U.K.\nAdvisory Board Member, 2000-present. <\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal>COMMITTEE ON TEACHING ABOUT THE UNITED NATIONS, New York.\nHonorary Patron, 2000.<\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal>WOMEN\u2019S PEACE PETITION TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE\nUNITED NATIONS, New York. Co-initiator, 1997 <\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal>NGO WORKING GROUP ON WOMEN, PEACE &amp; SECURITY, New\nYork. 1999 \u2013 present. Monitors Security Council Res. 1325. <\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal>CITIZEN\u2019S MISSION ON NATO EXPANSION, London, Brussels,\nMoscow. Co-leader. June, 1997. <\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal>MISSION TO OSCE, Vienna and Moscow, September \u201997. Re:\nNATO alternatives. <\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal>EXPERT GROUP MEETING ON POLITICAL DECISION-MAKING AND\nCONFLICT RESOLUTION, U.N. DAW\/PRIO, Santo Domingo. October 1996. Participant. <\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal>FIRST PALESTINIAN ELECTIONS, West Bank and Gaza Strip,\nJanuary 1996. Election Observer. <\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal>COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS, New York. Member,\n1989-present. <\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal>WOMEN\u2019S FOREIGN POLICY GROUP. Member, 1996-present. <\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal>UNITED NATIONS ASSOCIATION-USA. Member, 1996-present. <\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal>WOMEN IN INTERNATIONAL SECURITY. Member, 1989-present. <\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal>NGO COMMITTEE ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN. Member,\n1989-present <\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal>NGO WOMEN\u2019S FORUM \u201995, FOURTH WORLD CONFERENCE ON WOMEN,\nBeijing, China, 1995. Delegate, International Peace Bureau, Delegate, Peace\nAction. <\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal>INTERLEGAL, U.S.A. Board Member and Chair, Executive\nCommittee. 1990-1997.<\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal>US-NIS WOMEN\u2019S CONSORTIUM. Board Member, 1993-2000. <\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal>DOWNTOWN COMMUNITY TELEVISION, New York City. Board\nMember, 1987-present.<\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal>GAIA WOMEN\u2019S CENTER, Moscow. U.S. Advisory Board. WOMEN\nAND THE MARKET ECONOMY CONFERENCE, Moscow. Speaker. September, 1992. <\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal>&quot;WOMEN\u2019S PEACE PLATFORM FOR THE 21ST CENTURY&quot;,\nSpring 1995. Author.<\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal>SOVIET-AMERICAN WOMEN\u2019S SUMMIT. Co-chair, 1989-1990.<\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal>WOMEN FOR MEANINGFUL SUMMITS. Member, Board of Directors\nand Executive Committee, 1985-1991; Summit Meeting of President Reagan and\nSecretary Gorbachev, Geneva, November, 1985. Delegate. Moscow Women\u2019s\nConference, June, 1987. Delegate. <\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal>&quot;CHRISTIANITY &amp; CRISIS&quot;. Board Member,\n1991-1992. <\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal>PEACE CHILD FOUNDATION. Board Member, 1989. <\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal>HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE, Amherst, Mass. Trustee, 1978-1991;\nTrustee Emerita, 1991-present. <\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal>THE RIVERSIDE CHURCH DISARMAMENT PROGRAM, New York.\nFounder and Director, 1978-1988. <\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal>CHURCH WORLD SERVICE. Director, shipment of 10,000 tons\nof wheat to Vietnam, 1978. <\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal>NOBEL PEACE PRIZE CEREMONY, Oslo. Invited guest, 1987,\n1995, 2001. <\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal>FIVE CONTINENT PEACE INITIATIVE, Stockholm. Eminent\nperson, 1988. <\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal>DECADE FOR WOMEN. Delegate of World Council of Churches\nto Nairobi Conference, 1985. Third World Conference on Women. <\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal>A LEADER OF THE ONE MILLION PEOPLE ANTI-NUCLEAR\nDEMONSTRATION, Central Park, New York City. June 12, 1982. <\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal>WOMEN STRIKE FOR PEACE. National Board, 1961-1973. <\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal>NATIONAL MOBILIZATION TO END THE WAR IN VIETNAM. National\nco-chair for November 15, 1969, Washington D.C. Rally. <\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal>&quot;CORA WEISS COMMENTS: A MICROPHONE FOR WOMEN.&quot;\nWRVR-FM, New York, radio commentator, 1974-1978. <\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal>COMMITTEE OF LIAISON WITH FAMILIES OF PRISONERS DETAINED\nIN VIETNAM. Co-chair and Director, 1969-1973 <\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal>FRIENDSHIPMENT, coalition providing post-war relief and\nrehabilitation to Vietnam war victims. Executive Director, 1975-1978. <\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal>AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDENTS FOUNDATION. Executive Director\nand Board Member, 1959-1963. Airlift for students from East Africa to the U.S. <\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal>GANDHI SOCIETY FOR HUMAN RIGHTS. Treasurer, 1960-1967. <\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal>SCHOOL VOLUNTEER, New York City. 1958-1968. <\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/body>\n\n<\/html>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"989\" height=\"212\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vietnam50.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-1.png?fit=989%2C212&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vietnam50.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-1.png?w=989&amp;ssl=1 989w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vietnam50.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-1.png?resize=300%2C64&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vietnam50.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-1.png?resize=768%2C165&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 989px) 100vw, 989px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"980\" height=\"854\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vietnam50.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/NYT_2025-12-08.png?resize=980%2C854&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vietnam50.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/NYT_2025-12-08.png?w=980&amp;ssl=1 980w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vietnam50.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/NYT_2025-12-08.png?resize=300%2C261&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vietnam50.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/NYT_2025-12-08.png?resize=768%2C669&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Cora Weiss, who was active for more than half a century in support of gender equality, international peace, the anti-Vietnam War movement, civil rights and nuclear disarmament, and who helped organize some of the most important mass demonstrations of the 1960s, died on Monday in Manhattan. She was 91.<br><br>Her death, at a hospital, was confirmed by her son, Daniel Weiss.<br><br>In 1961, Ms. Weiss was raising her children in the Riverdale neighborhood of the Bronx when she was told about Women Strike for Peace, a new group organizing demonstrations against nuclear weapons testing.<br><br>Would Ms. Weiss be interested in joining the Riverdale chapter?<br><br>She was. With other women across the country, she soon found herself reading up on the deadly ingredients of an atomic bomb and sending off her children\u2019s baby teeth to be tested for radioactive isotopes resulting from nuclear fission.<br><br>Many of the teeth were found to have elevated levels of strontium-90, a carcinogenic element associated with nuclear testing that had also been detected in food. That finding boosted the group\u2019s visibility, attracting attention to its campaign to ban nuclear tests. By October 1963, President John F. Kennedy had&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jfklibrary.org\/learn\/about-jfk\/jfk-in-history\/nuclear-test-ban-treaty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">signed an agreement<\/a>&nbsp;with Britain and the Soviet Union to prohibit atomic testing in the atmosphere, space and under water.<br><br>\u201cI believe in civil society, and my experience of Women Strike for Peace led to that strong belief, because we managed to get things done,\u201d Ms. Weiss said in an interview for this obituary in 2021. \u201cI don\u2019t know if we ever woke up in the morning and said we didn\u2019t know how to go further. I think we just kept plowing.\u201d<br><br>As a result of her involvement in Women Strike for Peace, Ms. Weiss was propelled into the convulsive world of social justice activism and eventually onto a global stage. By the late 1960s, the group had shifted its focus to opposing the Vietnam War.<br><br>At one protest in front of the Pentagon, women held up posters reading, \u201cNot Our Sons, Not Your Sons,\u201d while Ms. Weiss and others banged on the doors of the Defense Department headquarters with their high heels. At another demonstration, in New York, she joined a long line of women lying on Park Avenue with signs on their chests bearing the names of Vietnamese dead.<br><br>Within a few years, Ms. Weiss had become co-chairwoman of the New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam and had helped organize one of the largest antiwar protests in the United States.<br><br>On Nov. 15, 1969, hundreds of thousands of Americans gathered in Washington, demanding that the United States withdraw its troops from Vietnam.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/02\/01\/obituaries\/coretta-scott-king-a-civil-rights-icon-dies-at-78.html\">Coretta Scott King<\/a>&nbsp;spoke.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/09\/17\/arts\/music\/17travers.html\">Mary Travers<\/a>, of the folk group Peter, Paul and Mary, sang. And Senator&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/10\/22\/us\/politics\/george-mcgovern-a-democratic-presidential-nominee-and-liberal-stalwart-dies-at-90.html\">George S. McGovern<\/a>, Democrat of South Dakota and a future presidential nominee, walked with Senator&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1987\/01\/22\/obituaries\/charles-e-goodell-former-senator-is-dead-at-60.html\">Charles E. Goodell<\/a>, Republican of New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"616\" height=\"490\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vietnam50.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image.png?fit=616%2C490&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vietnam50.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image.png?w=616&amp;ssl=1 616w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vietnam50.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image.png?resize=300%2C239&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>By&nbsp;Natalie Schachar<br>Dec. 8, 2025<br>(continued from left column)<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/12\/23\/realestate\/living-small-milan-italy.html\"><br><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/12\/23\/books\/bestselling-debut-novels-2025.html\"><br><\/a>The rally concluded with some protesters burning flags and police officers firing tear gas. Still, the day was hailed as significant in helping to turn public opinion against the war.<br>Soon after, Ms. Weiss flew to Hanoi to meet with the North Vietnamese Women\u2019s Union, proposing to carry back mail from prisoners of war. The trip led to the creation of the Committee of Liaison With Families of Servicemen Detained in North Vietnam. Ms. Weiss served as co-chairwoman of the organization, which eventually ferried thousands of letters and packages back and forth.<br><br>She also helped organize a major antinuclear demonstration in Central Park in Manhattan on June 12, 1982, drawing a crowd of about a million.<br><br>\u201cShe was courageous and brave and patriotic,\u201d Darren Walker, the former president of the Ford Foundation, said in an interview, \u201cand demonstrated that one can have love of country and still challenge America to be better.\u201d<br><br>For her part, Ms. Weiss told the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/575a10ba27d4bd5d7300a207\/t\/57601b8d9f7266ebae932dbc\/1465916301804\/Weiss_Cora_2014.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Columbia Center for Oral History<\/a>&nbsp;in 2014, \u201cI wasn\u2019t making a revolution, I was just working hard and long.\u201d<br><br>Cora Rubin was born on Oct. 2, 1934, in Manhattan, the daughter of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1985\/02\/08\/nyregion\/vera-d-rubin-73-is-dead-did-research-on-longevity.html\">Vera D. Rubin<\/a>, an anthropologist specializing in Caribbean studies whose work on marijuana use in Jamaica landed her on an early cover of High Times, the magazine about cannabis culture. Her father, Samuel Rubin, owned a cosmetics company.<br><br>When Cora was young, the family moved to Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y., in Westchester County. Raised in a liberal Jewish household, she was exposed to animated political discussions with guests like Eleanor Roosevelt, the first lady, who would drop by to chat and help with fund-raising. (Ms. Roosevelt would often spend time at her Hudson Valley retreat in Hyde Park, N.Y.)<br><br>\u201cWe talked community politics, what was happening in Croton, in the community,\u201d Ms. Weiss recalled. \u201cAntisemitism was rife, racism was rife, the war was rife.\u201d<br><br>She became an activist early on, helping her mother roll bandages for the Red Cross, taking coffee and doughnuts to young men preparing to go to the front lines of World War II, and knitting clothes for relief efforts. Those experiences inspired her interest in bringing an end to war, she said.<br><br>After graduating from the Ethical Culture Fieldston School in New York, she enrolled at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. There, she met a newspaper editor leading an effort to recall&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1957\/05\/03\/archives\/mcarthy-is-dead-of-liver-ailment-at-the-age-of-47-wife-with-senator.html\">Senator Joseph R. McCarthy<\/a>, the crusading anti-Communist who was attacking the loyalty of political opponents. She helped set up the Madison headquarters for a campaign called \u201cJoe Must Go\u201d and began going door to door to gather signatures for a petition.<br><br>It was an early lesson in the frustrations of grass-roots political organizing. Despite getting enough signatures, the recall effort floundered when many were deemed illegible.<br>She met Peter Weiss, a lawyer, during her work as chairwoman of the university\u2019s international speakers club, recruiting social justice activists to talk on campus. As head of the International Development Placement Association, a precursor to the Peace Corps, Mr. Weiss had been invited to speak. They married in 1956, the same year she graduated with a bachelor\u2019s degree in cultural anthropology.<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.legacy.com\/legacy\/peter-weiss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mr. Weiss died<\/a>&nbsp;in November at 99. In addition to their son, Ms. Weiss is survived by two daughters, Judy and Tamara Weiss; five grandchildren; and a brother, Reed Rubin.<br>A lifelong supporter of the United Nations, Ms. Weiss was particularly proud of her work in helping to draft United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325, which affirmed the importance of the role of women in the peace process and in protecting their security. It was unanimously adopted in 2000.<br><br>Later in life, as president of the Hague Appeal for Peace, a coalition of antiwar groups, she became involved in global peace education.<br><br>\u201cI\u2019ve decided that it\u2019s the only sustainable thing,\u201d Ms. Weiss said. \u201cYou can march, you can protest, you can make phone calls, you can write letters. But education is the closest thing, I think, to a sustainable form of social change.\u201d<br><br>Ash Wu&nbsp;contributed reporting.<\/summary>\n<p class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"732\" height=\"77\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vietnam50.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-4.png?fit=732%2C77&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vietnam50.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-4.png?w=732&amp;ssl=1 732w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vietnam50.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-4.png?resize=300%2C32&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 732px) 100vw, 732px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"774\" height=\"543\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vietnam50.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Portside_2025-12-20.png?resize=774%2C543&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vietnam50.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Portside_2025-12-20.png?w=774&amp;ssl=1 774w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vietnam50.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Portside_2025-12-20.png?resize=300%2C210&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vietnam50.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Portside_2025-12-20.png?resize=768%2C539&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 774px) 100vw, 774px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Cora Weiss was a woman who changed my life at the impressionable age of 19. I was a sophomore at conservative Dartmouth College, interested in the world beyond the United States but ignorant of how to become a part of that world.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">I was studying Chinese at that moment when Nixon and Mao had opened a door to closer U.S.-Chinese relations and my Chinese teacher suggested I take advantage of Dartmouth\u2019s \u201csemester-off\u201d grants to do an internship in Washington. I later learned that he wrote to Cora and asked where a young, \u201cconfused\u201d Dartmouth student might go to get a glimpse of how to work for a better world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Cora reached out to the Indochina Resource Center, a small but vital organization in Washington, D.C. that was fighting to end the Vietnam War, and they agreed to host me in the spring of 1975. There, I met some of the most committed and effective activists from Vietnam, Laos, and the United States who were teaching the Washington establishment and the country about the atrocities that the United States was committing in the countries of Indochina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">During my work at the Center, I \u201cmet\u201d Cora as her voice boomed over the speaker phone and she reported on a recent trip to Vietnam.&nbsp;Cora was a pillar of so much of the anti-war organizing in this period: trips to return POWs, humanizing the Vietnamese people for Americans, conveying the impact of the war on women and children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"672\" height=\"504\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vietnam50.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-3.png?resize=672%2C504&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vietnam50.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-3.png?w=672&amp;ssl=1 672w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vietnam50.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-3.png?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 672px) 100vw, 672px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>My timing was impeccable as the war ended during my internship. My going away present was a May 1975 poster advertising a massive peace celebration Cora co-organized (with Don Luce) in New York City\u2019s Central Park. Forty years later, when I had become her friend, I asked if she needed a copy of the poster and it turned out she\u2019d been looking for one for years. I was able to make an impeccable copy for her, while the original still hangs in my family home.&nbsp;<br><br>In 1983, the Institute for Policy Studies hired me to lead its global economy work \u2014 and I was delighted to find that Cora and <a href=\"https:\/\/ips-dc.org\/remembering-peter-weiss\/\">her brilliant international lawyer husband, Peter<\/a>, were close allies of IPS. They showed great interest in the work I had done after graduate school at the United Nations in Geneva, and they were there to offer support and ideas for the next four decades.&nbsp;<br><br>Cora was a champion of the United Nations and its mission to advance peace and women\u2019s rights. She insisted that we at IPS name our programs in positive terms to inspire people with \u201cwhat we\u2019re for\u201d: peace, disarmament, internationalism, women\u2019s rights, the common good.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/summary>\n<p class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary><strong>Portside&nbsp;<\/strong>December 20, 2025:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/portside.org\/2025-12-20\/cora-weiss-champion-peace-internationalism-and-womens-rights?utm_source=portside-general&amp;utm_medium=email\">John Cavanaugh, Cora Weiss: A Champion of Peace, Internationalism, and Women\u2019s Rights<\/a>\u2026 (continued from left column)<\/summary>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"672\" height=\"504\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vietnam50.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-3.png?fit=672%2C504&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vietnam50.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-3.png?w=672&amp;ssl=1 672w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vietnam50.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-3.png?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 672px) 100vw, 672px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">My timing was impeccable as the war ended during my internship. My going away present was a May 1975 poster advertising a massive peace celebration Cora co-organized (with Don Luce) in New York City\u2019s Central Park. Forty years later, when I had become her friend, I asked if she needed a copy of the poster and it turned out she\u2019d been looking for one for years. I was able to make an impeccable copy for her, while the original still hangs in my family home.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">In 1983, the Institute for Policy Studies hired me to lead its global economy work \u2014 and I was delighted to find that Cora and <a href=\"https:\/\/ips-dc.org\/remembering-peter-weiss\/\">her brilliant international lawyer husband, Peter<\/a>, were close allies of IPS. They showed great interest in the work I had done after graduate school at the United Nations in Geneva, and they were there to offer support and ideas for the next four decades.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Cora was a champion of the United Nations and its mission to advance peace and women\u2019s rights. She insisted that we at IPS name our programs in positive terms to inspire people with \u201cwhat we\u2019re for\u201d: peace, disarmament, internationalism, women\u2019s rights, the common good.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">She always wanted to hear about and meet the women we were bringing into IPS, and loved to talk to me about their work: Isabel Letelier, Barbara Ehrenreich, Sarah Anderson, Phyllis Bennis, Karen Dolan, Emira Woods, Lindsay Koshgarian, Kathleen Gaspard, Christine Ahn, and others.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>She always wanted to hear about and meet the women we were bringing into IPS, and loved to talk to me about their work: Isabel Letelier, Barbara Ehrenreich, Sarah Anderson, Phyllis Bennis, Karen Dolan, Emira Woods, Lindsay Koshgarian, Kathleen Gaspard, Christine Ahn, and others.&nbsp;<br><br>When I needed help, I called. In 1996, IPS and the International Forum on Globalization were seeking a venue for a huge teach-in on globalization in New York, and Cora delivered the glorious Riverside Church, where she ran their program on disarmament. I joined a United Nations advisory committee and Cora introduced me to her friend, Helen Clark, the former Prime Minister of New Zealand who ran the UN Development Program.<br>&nbsp;<br><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"695\" height=\"463\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ips-dc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/emira-cora-phyllis-50th-695x463.jpg?resize=695%2C463&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Cora Weiss (center) speaks on a panel at IPS's 50th anniiversary celebration with Emira Woods (left) and Phyllis Bennis (right). (Photo by Rick Reinhard for IPS)\"><br>Cora Weiss (center) speaks on a panel at IPS\u2019s 50th anniversary celebration with Emira Woods (left) and Phyllis Bennis (right). (Photo by Rick Reinhard for IPS)<br><br>As a philanthropist, she invested not only in many of the key peace and women\u2019s rights groups, but in dynamic and brilliant people she believed in. In the midst of all of her other duties as a peace and women\u2019s rights leader, Cora ran the Samuel Rubin Foundation (now directed by her daughter, Judy), a foundation set up by her father who had created the perfume company Faberg\u00e9 and sold it to set up the foundation.&nbsp;<br><br>For decades, that foundation generously supported IPS and its international arm, the Transnational Institute (now an independent but still allied organization). She and Peter not only supported the institutions they felt would deliver peace and human rights and women\u2019s rights, they were there for leaders when they needed help. As a trustee of Hampshire College, Cora helped key leaders get teaching jobs. She paid for the college education of the children of victims of political assassination. She gave special grants to IPS to help build retirement funds for some of its original leaders who couldn\u2019t imagine they would ever \u201cretire.\u201d<br><br>And she was audacious in her creations. In 1999, she organized The Hague Appeal for Peace, bringing Bishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa and 10,000 people to the Netherlands to educate for peace.&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>One of my favorite Cora moments was in 2009. I told Cora that I had been invited to attend a White House speech by President Barack Obama on the economy. Cora had met Obama on the campaign trail and had told him about the role that she and IPS Trustee Harry Belafonte had played in organizing funds for the program that brought Barack Obama\u2019s father to study in this country. In 2009, a new book (<em>Airlift to America<\/em>) had just been published on this program, and Cora wanted to inscribe a copy and have me deliver it to President Obama.<br>&nbsp;<br>I arrived at the White House for the speech and was told that we had to wait an hour and could explore parts of the White House because the world had just been told that Obama would win the Nobel Peace Prize. I figured that I would never actually meet the president so I wandered into the White House library and put the book on a shelf next to some important 18<sup>th<\/sup> century tomes. I then told a confused and disbelieving White House aide where I had left a gift for the president from Cora Weiss.<br><br>Cora and Peter were incredibly proud of their three children, and loved to talk about them. Cora loved to organize birthday parties for Peter where people were challenged to talk about their dreams to make the impossible possible. She loved meeting women who would, like her, push the boundaries of the possible.<br>&nbsp;<br>And she inspired me to help IPS build an ambitious program to mentor new leaders of the movements that will lead us out of this time of crisis, now called <a href=\"https:\/\/ips-dc.org\/project\/henry-a-wallace-fellowship-program\/\">the Henry A. Wallace Fellowship Program<\/a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>Cora\u2019s bold, inspiring legacy will live on for generations to come.&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;<br><em>John Cavanagh directed IPS\u2019s Global Economy Project from 1983-1999, directed IPS from 1991 to 2021, and is now Senior Advisor at IPS.<\/em><\/summary>\n<p class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BIOGRAPHIC DETAILS Source link: Sari Sansar At The UN CORA WEISS 777 United Nations Plaza Tel: 212-697-8945 New York, New York 10027 Fax: 212-682-0886 cweiss@igc.org CORA WEISS, President, Hague Appeal for Peace, 777 United Nations Plaza Cora Weiss, President of the Hague Appeal for Peace, has been well known as a peace activist since the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-370","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Cora Weiss Obituary - The 50th Anniversary of Peace &amp; 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