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Kingdom of Bahrain and Wiesenthal Center team up to promote religious tolerance
Yom HaShoah 2016: This year, it’s ‘ever again’
For over seven decades, on Yom Hashoah – Holocaust Memorial Day, people pause to reflect on the mass murder of 6,000,000 Jews, a genocide conceived, organized and executed by Hitler’s Third Reich.
The not-so random ‘deli’ shootings
It just so happens that Simon Wiesenthal Center Associate Dean Abraham Cooper was in Paris for talks with Jewish leaders and government officials about the time the news broke of President Obama’s interview with Matt Yglesias in online Vox magazine.
Petition to delete Israel-haters Facebook page draws immediate support
The long-standing Facebook war of words between pro- and anti-Israel partisans has heated up a few degrees with a petition to remove a particularly offensive “F… Israel” page.
Truth and consequences: When Hamas targeted The Holy City
Jerusalemites have an age-old custom of ushering in the holy Sabbath earlier — a full 36 minutes before sunset — than anywhere else in the world.
L.A. leaders denounce IOC at Munich 11 commemoration
Community leaders gathered at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum today to observe a moment of silence for the 11 Israelis killed during the 1972 Olympics in Munich. The leaders also denounced the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for its refusal to hold a similar commemoration during the opening ceremonies of the London Olympic Games.
Truth Trumps Presbyterian Divestment Resolution
Last week, delegates to the Presbyterian Church USA\’s (PCUSA) General Assembly in Birmingham, Ala., voted to undo their hateful 2004 anti-Israel divestment resolution.