The President’s Rabbi The rise of Donald Trump has been very good to Marvin Hier, founder and leader of the Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center. Hier has been an oft-noisy voice on the national Jewish scene since the 1970s. But the months since Trump’s inauguration have seen him ascend from the rank and file of…
(JTA) — The Simon Wiesenthal Center said it hasn’t considered withdrawing an award given to movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, who was fired by the production company he founded following a string of sexual harassment allegations. Weinstein received the 2015 Humanitarian Award from the group, which promotes tolerance, and was honored at its annual gala dinner….
(JTA) — Berlin’s mayor will block the use of city venues and funds by groups or event organizers that support the boycott movement against Israel. The move, announced Wednesday, followed pressure by the Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center, which had threatened to put Berlin Mayor Michael Müller on its annual list of 10 worst anti-Semitic incidents…
(JTA) — Berlin’s mayor, many local Jewish leaders agree, could do more to counter the city’s vocal BDS movement. But does that make him an anti-Semite? A report that the California-based Simon Wiesenthal Center may include Mayor Michael Müller on its annual list of the world’s 10 worst cases of anti-Semitic activity has perplexed prominent…
BUENOS AIRES (JTA) — A Simon Wiesenthal Center program against racism in sports will be implemented in the 2018 Buenos Aires Youth Olympic Games with the support of the Organization of American States. The “Eleven Points Against Racism in Football” program works with sport authorities, athletes and referees to stop and prevent racial hatred in sport…
Former president Barack Obama will appear in an upcoming documentary about the life of former Israeli prime minister and president Shimon Peres. “Never Stop Dreaming: The Life and Legacy of Shimon Peres” is being directed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Richard Trank for Moriah Films, the filmmaking unit of the Simon Wiesenthal Center. Trank told The…
After the end of the Jewish holiday of Shavuot on Thursday night, which kept observant Jews offline, condemnations of President Trump’s announcement that he would not immediately move the U.S. embassy to Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem began to flow in. The first comes from the Simon Wiesenthal Center, whose leader, Rabbi Marvin Hier,…
While a second Jewish cemetery has been desecrated in America in as many weeks, in Israel, a historic Jewish cemetery is free of vandalism for the first time in decades. The Mount of Olives cemetery is a sprawling 3,000-year-old Jewish burial ground in East Jerusalem with 150,000 graves. The cemetery is one of the oldest…
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