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Purim Spoof 09: Wiesenthal Center Shifts Gears

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Los Angeles -- Stung by criticism that building a Museum of Tolerance atop a Muslim burial ground in Jerusalem is hypocritical, the Simon Wiesenthal Center has backed down and plans instead to open the Bernard Madoff Center for Ethics in Business.
“We feel this would be somewhat less ironic,” said Rabbi Marvin Higher of the Wiesenthal Center.
The Madoff School was one of five alternatives  proposed by the Center’s board of directors. Other ideas included the Donald Trump Humility Center , the Roseanne Barr Center for Health and Nutrition, the Britney Spears School of Parenting and the Amy Winehouse Anti-Drug Education Project.

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