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museum of tolerance
The rapper and the rabbi: Ice Cube and Rabbi Abraham Cooper heal old wounds
Ryan Torok
April 7, 2017
Betty Cohen: At 95, ‘bionic woman’ still going strong
Ryan Torok
January 5, 2017
Betty Cohen, a 95-year-old Holocaust survivor, is unsure if all the time she spends telling her story has amounted to anything.
Why are liberals bashing Michael Oren?
David Suissa
July 7, 2015
After interviewing former ambassador Michael Oren last week at the Museum of Tolerance, and reading countless articles attacking him, I think I’ve figured out why his new book, “Ally,” has struck such a sensitive nerve, especially with pro-Obama liberal Zionists.
Michael Oren responds to ‘Ally’ backlash at local event
Ryan Torok
July 2, 2015
Former Israeli ambassador to the United States Michael Oren’s dual loyalties — and his frustration with the growing separation between Israel and America — were evident in his remarks July 1 when he appeared at the Museum of Tolerance to discuss his recently released, controversial memoir.
‘A Sacred Culture Rebuilt’ at Museum of Tolerance
Tess Cutler
November 25, 2014
Just inside the fluorescent-lit room, six picnic-style tables were supplied with arts and crafts essentials: scissors, glue sticks and stock photos.
School assignment in Rialto revised after ADL, Wiesenthal condemnation
Jewish Journal
May 6, 2014
An assignment for eighth-graders in the Rialto Unified School District asking them to use critical thinking skills to determine whether or not the Holocaust occurred has been revised following condemnation by the local branch of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and the Simon Wiesenthal Center and its Museum of Tolerance.
Will Jews reject Donald Sterling gifts?: Jewish organizations recoil at Clippers owner’s comments
Jewish Journal
April 29, 2014
Recent comments attributed to Donald Sterling, the Jewish owner of the NBA\’s Los Angeles Clippers who was banned for life from the team by the league’s commissioner on April 29, have been denounced as racist by numerous area Jewish organizations, some of which have received donations amounting to tens of thousands of dollars from the embattled owner.
Calendar November 9-15
Laura Donney
November 6, 2013
Siblings Deborah Strobin and Ilie Wacs, survivors of Kristallnacht, will share their experience and discuss their memoir, “An Uncommon Journey,” during the Museum of Tolerance’s Kristallnacht commemoration. A book signing will follow.
Anne Frank’s legacy is brought to life at Museum of Tolerance
Danielle Berrin
September 11, 2013
Push past a set of double doors hidden in a corner on the second floor of the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Museum of Tolerance and suddenly the world of 1932 Frankfurt, Germany, comes clamoring to life. Street sounds clog a narrow passageway leading past a 3-D blueprint of the city, where paneled mirrors reflect passers-by as if they were literally walking the tenement-lined streets; this is Germany when it was just another country, when Frankfurt was innocent, still home to thousands of Jews and, most memorably, one in particular.
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