UC Davis Chancellor and delegation participate in intensive all-day training seminar at Museum of Tolerance following a rash of anti-Semitic eventson campus. Read more...
Museum Of Tolerance receives $10K grant for racial healing from W.K. Kellogg Foundation.
Elie Wiesel, Sir Salman Rushdie and former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney join the more than 2,600 people gather at SWC "Spirit of Hope"Benefit in Toronto, Canada Read more...
"From the International Desk of the Simon Wiesenthal Center" a featureof The Zelda Show is aired on Mondays at 9:30am (EST) in the Toronto area and can also be accessed on the webat www.zeldayoung.com or www.chinradio.com
"Winston Churchill: Walking With Destiny" film premieres in London and Los Angeles
London: L-R: SWC Executive Director, Rabbi Meyer H. May; US Ambassador, Court of St. James(UK) and Mrs. (Marjorie) Louis Sussman; narrator Sir Ben Kingsley; SWC Board Member, Dawn Arnall; Cordula Waldeck and Dutch Ambassador to the U.K.,Pim Waldeck . Photo: Richard Lewis
"Winston Churchill: Walking With Destiny" Writer and Director, Richard Trank with Winston Churchill's granddaughter, Celia Sandys at ChurchillMuseum in London. Photo: Charlie Hopkinson
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Los Angeles: L-R: Anne Samson, SWC Board Chairman Larry Mizel, premiere chairs, Lee Samson andRosalie Zalis, Entertainment Tonight's Mary Hart, Burt Sugarman and Rabbi Marvin Hier. Photo: Bart Bartholomew
Let's Tell the Truth About the 'Siege' of Gaza By Abraham Cooper
Published May 28, (prior to the Gaza flotilla confrontation)
If all goes the way sponsoring NGOs planned it, an eight-ship armada of activists is already enroute from Cyprusto break the "siege" of Gaza. Timed for the slow news cycles of the Memorial Day weekend in the United States, organizers, led by "peace crusaders" fromTurkey, Greece, Ireland, Sweden and North America will unload 10,000 tons of construction material, school and medical supplies.
The organizers are not surprised that Israel has already notified the Irish, Turkish and Swedish ambassadors that the flotilla will not be allowed todisembark in Gaza. Continue Reading›
