RABBI HIER
- Share via
The new $2.25-million Yeshiva University high school building was not purchased by the center but by Yeshiva University of Los Angeles. The Wiesenthal Center and Yeshiva are incorporated separately and are financially independent.
The encyclopedia that will be used in the center’s new Museum of Tolerance was donated by Robert Maxwell, whose company, Macmillan Inc., published the “Encyclopedia of the Holocaust.”
RABBI MEYER H. MAY
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR,
SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER
Los Angeles
Sign up for Essential California
The most important California stories and recommendations in your inbox every morning.
You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times.
More From the Los Angeles Times
Podcasts
John Orr was a renowned fire investigator who was also a prolific arsonist, and whose thinly veiled novel helped to convict him. In this episode we hear from the fire captain who first suspected him—and from Orr himself.
Madison McGhee is joined by legendary Dateline host Josh Mankiewicz and esteemed L.A. Times Reporter Richard Winton as the three of them dive into all-things Menendez Brothers, the good, the bad, and the still unknown.
NPR climate editor Sadie Babits talks about why the media has long overlooked the climate crisis, and how that’s starting to change.
