The Mormon Church agreed to remove the names of more than 200 deceased Jews from a list of people being offered a chance — in the afterlife — to convert to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, according to The New York Times. The agreement to take the names, which include Albert Einstein and David Ben-Gurion, off the list, came after a request from the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
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