The Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center unveiled plans for a museum of tolerance in Jerusalem. The museum will focus on promoting civility and tolerance among Jews, and between Jews and non-Jews, according to Rabbi Marvin Hier, the center’s founder and dean.
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