The Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center is holding a ceremony at its Museum of Tolerance to honor the memory of King Hussein. “The unprecedented step of a Jewish institution holding a tribute for an Arab king speaks miles as to what we thought of him,” said Rabbi Marvin Hier, the center’s dean and founder.
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