Rosner’s Torah-Talk: Parashat Naso with Rabbi Abraham Cooper

By Shmuel Rosner
Published on May 17, 2013

Arnold Schwartzman — master designer behind ‘Voices & Visions’

By Tom Teicholz
Published on December 21, 2012

Arnold Schwartzman, the artistic director of the “Voices & Visions” program and one of the most accomplished designers and documentary directors of our times, is a story unto himself. Recently, I spent a few very companionable hours at Schwartzman’s L.A. home as he shared some of the details of his personal journey and professional career.

Why the Wiesenthal Center left the interfaith roundtable

Published on October 19, 2012

Sometimes, only a period of separation will save a troubled marriage. That is why the Simon Wiesenthal Center and other Jewish groups are pulling out of the Christian-Jewish Roundtable. Fifteen liberal Protestant leaders, including those of the Presbyterian, Lutheran and Methodist denominations, chose the Jewish High Holiday season to urge Congress to curtail U.S. aid to Israel.

Wiesenthal Center’s most wanted Nazi located in Budapest by tabloid

Published on July 17, 2012

A fugitive Nazi war criminal who helped send 15,700 Jews to their deaths was tracked down in Budapest by a British tabloid newspaper.

First-known Hitler Writing on ‘Jewish Question’ Displayed

By Tom Tugend
Published on October 2, 2011

Ten months after the end of World War I, a 30-year-old German army veteran wrote a two-page letter in which he explained the Jewish question on what he called a “rational” and “scientific” basis.

Wiesenthal Center Gets Hitler’s First Anti-Semitic Screed

By Tom Tugend
Published on June 8, 2011

“An anti-Semitism based on reason must lead to systematic combatting and elimination of the privileges of the Jews… The ultimate objective [of such legislation] must be the irrevocable removal of Jews in general.”

Wiesenthal Center: Will, not age, major obstacle in Nazi prosecutions

Published on May 5, 2011

A lack of political will is more to blame than aging in the failure to prosecute Nazi-era war criminals, the Simon Wiesenthal Center said in an annual report. "The lack of political will to bring Nazis war criminals to justice and/or to punish them continues to be the major obstacle to achieving justice, particularly in post-Communist Eastern Europe," said the center's report on on the Investigation and Prosecution of Nazi War Criminals released May 1. "The campaign led by the Baltic countries to distort the history of the Holocaust and obtain official recognition that the crimes of Communism are equal to those of the Nazis is another major obstacle to the prosecution of those responsible for the crimes of the Shoah."

Wiesenthal Center asks Sweden to protect its Jews

Published on March 16, 2011

The Simon Wiesenthal Center called on the Swedish government to assume the cost of protecting the Jewish community. Senior officials of the organization, who visited Stockholm and Malmo during a weeklong fact-finding mission, accused the government of making the Jewish community pay the equivalent of a "Jewish tax," requiring the community to pay for most security measures, including barriers against attacks in front of the synagogue during services.

Wiesenthal Center tells Japanese band to apologize for SS attire

Published on March 1, 2011

The Simon Wiesenthal Center called on the Japanese rock group Kishidan to apologize for wearing SS-like uniforms during an MTV Japan interview. The center also criticized MTV and Sony Music for allowing the interview with Kishidan to air and offered to bring a Holocaust survivor to Japan to be interviewed on MTV Japan.

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.