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SWC Officials Attend Israeli PM’s Speech to U.S. Congress; Existential Threat Extends Beyond Israel
Simon Wiesenthal Center senior officials including Rabbi Marvin Hier, SWC Founder and Dean, Rabbi Abraham Cooper, Associate Dean and...
Statement by Rabbi Marvin Hier, Simon Wiesenthal Center Founder and Dean, Rabbi Abraham Cooper, Associate Dean and Director ofGlobal Social Action:
“The right to protest is sacrosanct in American life. But the very values and rights bestowed by our democracy are degraded anddiminished when police officers have to draw their guns to protect our duly elected officials in the heart of our nation by violent protesters who have stormed Congress and by their reckless anddangerous behavior have inflicted grievous wounds on our nation.
Nothing, not even the emotional charges of voter fraud in a presidential election, can ever legitimize or excuse suchbehavior.
For as the Talmud warns, ‘Pray for the welfare of the government, for without it... man would swallow his fellow man.’
Today is a dark day for all Americans.”
Senior Leaders of Simon Wiesenthal Center in Jerusalem to Attend Opening of US Embassy
May 13, 2018
Rabbi Marvin Hier, Dean and Founder and Rabbi Abraham Cooper, Associate Dean and Director of Global Social Action of the leading Jewish Human Rights...
Rabbi Marvin Hier: "United Nations political bias against Israel is not enough, now they want cultural bias as well."
March 15, 2011
Rabbi Marvin Hier, founder and dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center and two-time Academy Award winner, commented on last night's screening in the...