BUSINESS
March 23, 1999 | GREG MILLER
The Simon Wiesenthal Center is scheduled to release a report today that shows a sharp rise in the number of Internet sites that promote racial violence, anti-Semitism and other categories of hate speech. The report lists the addresses of 1,426 sites, more than double the number documented in the center's initial study in December 1997. The report, compiled by researchers at Jewish human rights organization, is designed primarily as a tool for law enforcement and educators.
BUSINESS
December 7, 1998 | KAREN KAPLAN, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Perhaps without even meaning to, the Simon Wiesenthal Center showed computer technology at its best and its worst during its conference on the Internet. Using a flawless videoconference link from Washington, Rabbi Abraham Cooper, the center's associate dean, served as master of ceremonies for the event at the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles. At the same time, another videoconference link brought together educators from Connecticut, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey and Washington.
NEWS
June 15, 1998 | Reuters
The Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center defended its latest Holocaust report Sunday after a backlash by the Swiss government and even by the famed Nazi-hunter for whom the center is named. "We are not backing down. This is not a report about the Swiss people of 1942 or the Swiss government or people of today," Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean of the Wiesenthal Center, said Sunday. Hier said historian Alan Morris Schom's report was a survey of extremist groups.
NEWS
June 11, 1998 | From Reuters
Authors of a controversial report accusing the Swiss government of aiding Nazi Germany during World War II defended themselves Wednesday against accusations that the conclusions were unproved. The report, based largely on documents from German and Swiss archives, was criticized by Swiss President Flavio Cotti as "untenable and perfidious" and an insult to "an entire generation."
NEWS
June 10, 1998 | NORMAN KEMPSTER, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Switzerland's justice minister met clandestinely during World War II with leaders of a Swiss anti-Semitic group, promising to stop most Jews fleeing the Holocaust from entering the country but warning that the policy had to be kept secret, according to documents contained in a report to be released today.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
February 20, 1998 | MATEA GOLD, TIMES STAFF WRITER
A news flash breaks on the TV in a crowded diner. Familiar images flicker across the screen: Yellow police tape cordoning off a smashed car. A shellshocked mother staring wildly at the scene, trying to absorb the news. Her teenage son, driving home drunk after the prom, has crashed into another car and been killed. "Every parent's worst nightmare," the television anchor solemnly intones. But this isn't the nightly news.