Marvin Hier

Nearly seven decades after his alleged crimes, Hungarian prosecutors arrested and charged a 97-year-old man accused of torturing Jewish detainees before they were sent to Nazi death camps....

Officials of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a leading Jewish Human Rights NGO are urging German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Bundestag leaders to take immediate legislative steps to ensure the rights of Jews and Muslims to continue the age-old practice of...

To some, “Miss Holocaust Survivor” sounded like the ultimate triumph -- crowning and championing a woman who had suffered the horrors of the Holocaust. To others, the idea of invoking Nazi terrors in the shallow setting of a beauty pageant was...

LOS ANGELES -- Screenwriter Joe Eszterhas has released an audiotape of Mel Gibson recorded at the actor's home in Costa Rica in December, according to TheWrap. On the recording, obtained by TheWrap, Gibson can be heard screaming epithets at his house...

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (KTLA) -- Israeli President Shimon Peres stood alongside A-list celebrities as well as Jewish and Latino leaders at the Beverly Hilton Hotel Saturday morning, wrapping up a 4-day trip to Southern California. In front of a room...

There are only two possible explanations for that photo. One is intentional malice. That is the explanation favored by Rabbi Marvin Hier of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles. That picture, he told The Associated Press, is "beyond the pale."...

Box-office preview. A look at L.A. ad agencies playing in the Super Bowl. Can NBC's "Smash" hit the right notes?...

Everybody and his mother is apparently a candidate to buy the bankrupt Los Angeles Dodgers....

With his history of anti-Semitism, should Mel Gibson be developing a film about historic Jewish hero Judah Macabee? Patrick Goldstein weighs in....

The Simon Wiesenthal Center has announced that it has acquired a letter signed by Adolf Hitler advocating a legal removal of Jews, six years before the publication of “Mein Kampf.”...

The Museum of Contemporary Art's recent fundraiser was proclaimed to be many things: Trailed by a "60 Minutes" TV crew, while being observed by Connie Bruck for a New Yorker profile, Eli Broad said the "Artist's Museum Happening" promised to redefine...

Clint Eastwood, whose most famous movie roles were trigger-happy vigilantes but whose directorial work has shown a more open-minded world view, will receive an award from the Museum of Tolerance this fall. The Oscar-winning filmmaker will accept the...