Marvin Hier
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Rabbi Marvin Hier is the Dean and Founder of the Simon Wiesenthal
Center Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles, California. He received his
rabbinic ordination from the Rabbi Jacob Joseph Theological Seminary in
New York, and then worked at Schara Tzedek Synagogue, an Orthodox
congregation in Vancouver, Canada, where he served as Rabbi for fifteen
years. Concurrently, he was Hillel Director at the University of
British Columbia. In 1977, he founded the Yeshiva University of Los
Angeles (YULA) and the Simon Wiesenthal Center, the center of Holocaust
studies in Los Angeles. Rabbi Hier is the recipient of the Chevalier
dans L'Ordre Nationale du Merite of France.
