Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center at Yeshiva University of Los Angeles, has accepted an invitation from the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to become a member of the Academy. According to Academy membership sources, Hier is the first rabbi known to have been invited to join the organization. Hier, who won an Oscar as co-producer of “Genocide,” a documentary on the Holocaust narrated by Elizabeth Taylor and Orson Welles, will join the honorary association comprising 4,000 members around the world. The invitation was extended on behalf of the academy’s president, Fay Kanin.
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