Jewish leaders, groups welcome Pope Francis

By Jonah Lowenfeld
Published on March 13, 2013

Jewish leaders around the world welcomed Wednesday’s selection of Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio as the pope of the Roman Catholic Church. Bergoglio, 76, who took the name Francis upon his selection, has been the archbishop of Buenos Aires since 1998 and is the first from the Americas to lead the Catholic Church.

Peres the prophet

By Jonah Lowenfeld
Published on March 13, 2012

When Shimon Peres appeared at the Beverly Hilton on March 8 before an audience of more than 1,000 Israel supporters, the Israeli president received two standing ovations — before he even uttered a single word.

New design set for Jerusalem tolerance museum

By Tom Tugend
Published on October 19, 2010

Architectural designs for a trimmed-down Museum of Tolerance in the center of Jerusalem, featuring massive top-to-bottom glass walls facing the city’s Independence Park, have been unveiled by the Simon Wiesenthal Center.

Protests over Jerusalem Museum of Tolerance spread

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on December 11, 2008

Although the cemetery hasn't been used in at least 50 years and has long since been declared mundras -- no longer sacred -- by Muslim authorities, critics of the Center for Human Dignity have charged the Wiesenthal Center with being intolerant in its quest to build a Jerusalem version of its West. L.A. museum.

Israel Supreme Court OKs Museum of Tolerance Jerusalem project

By Tom Tugend
Published on October 29, 2008

The Israeli Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the Simon Wiesenthal Center can build is long-planned Center for Human Dignity -- Museum of Tolerance on a contested site in the middle of Jerusalem

Wiesenthal’s Project in Jerusalem on Hold Amid Dispute

By Tom Tugend
Published on 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.

Gibson Film Is a Frontal Assault on Jews

By Marvin Hier
Published on February 19, 2004

Mel Gibson's film is nothing less then a frontal assault and a collective indictment of the entire Jewish community during the time of Jesus.

Blame Saddam, Not Jews

By Marvin Hier
Published on March 13, 2003

Every time we seem to turn a corner in the battle against anti-Semitism, a new strain of the virus emerges. The latest strain is to blame America's war against Iraq on the Jews.

Lessons from the Mahane Yehuda Tragedy

By Rabbi Marvin Hier
Published on July 31, 1997

Tragically, the horrible terrorist attack against civilians at the Mahane Yehuda marketplace in Jerusalem leaves all of us numb and, at the same time, reminds us that the memories of Jewish history live on.