Why would a Jew become a Mormon? Ask Marlena

By Mark Paredes
Published on June 5, 2012

Daniel Pearl posthumously baptized by Mormons

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on February 29, 2012

Mormon Temples and Jews: The SWC Charade Continues

By Mark Paredes
Published on February 27, 2012

A Jew and a Mormon walk into a Bar…

By Rabbi Barry Gelman
Published on February 26, 2012

Anne Frank baptized in Mormon proxy ritual

Published on February 22, 2012

Anne Frank was baptized in a Mormon proxy ritual in another case of a Holocaust victim discovered to have been baptized posthumously this month.

Wiesel: Romney should speak out about proxy baptisms

Published on February 15, 2012

Holocaust survivor and author Elie Wiesel said Mitt Romney should speak up about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' practice of posthumous baptisms. In an interview with the Huffington Post, Wiesel said that Romney, the front-runner in the race for the Republican presidential nod, should tell his church to “stop” performing posthumous proxy baptisms of Holocaust victims.

Mormon church apologizes for proxy baptism of Wiesenthal’s parents

Published on February 14, 2012

The Mormon church has apologized for the posthumous baptism of the parents of Simon Wiesenthal. A member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints last month submitted the names of Wiesenthal's parents for posthumous baptism, the Salt Lake Tribune reported. Wiesenthal was a Holocaust survivor who died in 2005; his mother was killed in the Nazi death camp Belzec in 1942.

Answers to a rabbi, part 3: Baptizing dead Jews

By Mark Paredes
Published on December 9, 2011

Theological Exclusivism: Is Heaven Only for Mormons?

By Mark Paredes
Published on March 27, 2011

The Archbishop, Jews, and Christian Zionists

By Mark Paredes
Published on October 27, 2010

Proxy Baptism Controversy: The End

By Mark Paredes
Published on September 2, 2010

Mormon Proxy Immersions for the Dead

By Mark Paredes
Published on July 28, 2010

Red Lines

By Mark Paredes
Published on May 31, 2010

Shoah group halts talks with Mormons on posthumous baptism of Jews

By Ben Harris
Published on November 20, 2008

At a news conference Monday, leaders of the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and their Descendants, seated in front of panels listing names of Holocaust victims they say were baptized by the Mormons, said that 14 years of quiet negotiations have proven fruitless.

Holocaust survivors still mad with Mormons over baptism

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on November 11, 2008

Mormons remove Wiesenthal from 'baptism' registry; Philanthropist funds series on composers suppressed by Nazis

Published on December 21, 2006

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