As the architect's "Keep Memory Alive Foundation" funded building, Lou Ruvo Brain Institute, aka 'brain building,' nears completion in Las Vegas, another composition in Jerusalem, 'Museum of Tolerance,' faces increasing opposition. This time from the Jewish clergy, CCAR.
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Gehry's work in construction phase still blows my mind.
More so than when finished and all shiny.
This is the ultimate "Deconsturction"......
i thought this is the billboard in front.
another building related controversy the museum of tolerance dealing at home and more on jerusalem site and the hollywood connection.
what i don't understand is; why rabbi marvin hier, who founded the wiesenthal center, is gambling away museum's respect and its importance to peace and contribution to understanding of 'tolerance,' he himself built up so intelligently and hard workingly? is it personal ego, financial gain, power, what? his only argument has been that jerusalem site is a parking garage. that has been answered via what circumstances a partial garage construction was granted in 1960 by the local puppet palestinian administration. there shouldn't be a garage in the first place, whatever the reason and the whomever were the people allowed and built it. historical facts are historical facts.
it is not a good argument for a respectable institution to come and built on the past mistakes.
it is raughly translating to; knowingly buying a stolen good and saying it is not the buyers fault.
you have to be pretty self centered not to listen all the people from all kinds of communities taking a position against building a museum in its current location in jerusalem.
mr. hier single handedly making it difficult to understand his very own mission of making tolerance understood and put in practice without the influance of nationality, race, gender and religious belief.
"Meeting in Jerusalem on February 25, the Reform rabbinate passed a resolution strongly opposing the Mamilla site. In a recent opinion piece, Eric Yoffie, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, wrote “there is something perverse and ironic about building a monument to tolerance that will be a permanent source of tension in the region and that undermines the mutual respect and trust that tolerance requires.”
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