Simon Wiesenthal Center Op/Ed Pieces Published Today in Leading Newspapers; New Facebook Blog Read by Tens of Thousands Worldwide

The Washington Post - On Faith
Ahmadinejad Denial
byRabbi Marvin Hier
Once again, on the eve of his departure to New York to deliver a speech Wednesday at the United Nations General Assembly, President MahmoudAhmadinejad thumbed his nose at the world by declaring the Holocaust "A lie based on an improbable and mythical claim." ...

The Miami Herald
Real peace and notambiguities
by Rabbi Marvin Hier
As the Obama administration gets ready to unveil its much anticipated Middle East peace initiative, there is much consternation and nervousness in theair in Israel. ...

YnetNews.com
Yom Kippur War of 2009: Israelis again facemultiple attacks, but this time not only from bombs
by Rabbi Abraham Cooper and Dr. Harold Brackman
With the approach of Yom Kippur, our day of remembrance and repentance, we remember the trauma of 1973 when Egypt and Syria chose the Jewish High Holy Days to launch asurprise attack that nearly succeeded in destroying the state of Israel. ...

Facebook.com
The Role of Technology in PromotingTolerance
by Rabbi Abraham Cooper
"Who knows," said Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio, when he receivedthe 2008 Nobel Prize for literature, "if the Internet had existed at the time, perhaps Hitler's criminal plot would not have succeeded — ridicule might have prevented itfrom ever seeing the light of day." ...