Museum of too much tolerance?
David Suissa
May 8, 2008
Should the Museum of Tolerance tolerate parties and simchas in a place that commemorates the death of 6 million Jews?
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Photo exhibit highlights the human cost of our bounty
Roberto Loiederman
March 28, 2008
In the stark black-and-white photo, two small children play in and around water, as children anywhere might do on a hot day. But there\’s something odd about the image: it isn\’t the shore or a recreational pool they\’re playing in, but a concrete irrigation canal.
Fundraising the Rabbi Hier way
Amy Klein
November 16, 2007
Interview with Rabbi Marvin Hier who created the Simon Wiesenthal Center, the Museum of Tolerance and Yeshiva University of Los Angeles (YULA).
Museum of Tolerance expansion plans controversy continues at City Hall
Tom Tugend
November 2, 2007
A long-running dispute between homeowners and the Simon Wiesenthal Center\’s Museum of Tolerance (MOT) and Yeshiva of Los Angeles (YOLA) entered a more formal stage last week, with a hearing by the Los Angeles City Planning Department on Oct. 24 at City Hall.
Museum of Tolerance faces fight with neighbors over expansion plans
Tom Tugend
October 18, 2007
The Simon Wiesenthal Center, which has been battling for more than three years to construct a $200 million center in Israel, is facing another emotional building controversy, this one in its own backyard.\n
Briefs: Rabbi Woody Allen; Museum of Tolerance Jerusalem case nears decision
Jewish Journal
May 18, 2007
Community briefs.
Wiesenthal’s Project in Jerusalem on Hold Amid Dispute
Tom Tugend
February 23, 2006
Since its beginning in 1977, with one phone and a very long extension cord, the Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center has seemingly moved from one success to the next, with its shrewd, strategic planning and winning message of tolerance. Now it faces a daunting, unfamiliar and discomforting challenge.
Community Briefs
David Finnigan
September 29, 2005
Soulful \’Hatikvah\’ Ends Wiesenthal Farewell
It was an unscripted, final moment that may have best captured the Monday memorial at the Museum of Tolerance for Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal, who died last week at age 96.
The ceremony had been held outside. As long lines of mourners waited amidst rows of folded chairs to return into the museum, an elderly, white-haired man began singing Israel\’s national anthem, \”Hatikvah,\” in a loud, lone voice. A ripple of applause followed after Gedalia Arditti, a 77-year-old Greek Jew, belted out the song\’s last word — \”Yer-u-shal-a-yim!\”
Unspeakable Acts, Incredible Pictures
David Finnigan
July 14, 2005
A large, striped blue-and-white flag bearing the phrase, \”Liberation!\” greets visitors at the Museum of Tolerance exhibit, \”Liberation! Revealing the Unspeakable,\” about the Allied soldiers and the starved, dying and dead Jews they discovered while liberating concentration camps.
In a hallway there is a row of photographs of soldiers who became the saviors of survivors. Then, down a set of stairs to the main exhibit area, one gallery wall features a 1945 poem written by an unnamed survivor upon learning of Hitler\’s death:
I have outlived the fiend
My lifelong wish fulfilled
What more need I achieve
My heart is full of joy
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Gaby Wenig
May 13, 2004
Recognition and Honor to individuals, groups, schools and a special appearance by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
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