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Simon Wiesenthal Center

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    December 30, 2011

    Scientology in the Village Voice: 2011 in Review

    Here at the Voice we wrote 234 stories on Scientology this year. They generated more than a million pageviews and more than 20,000 comments from our loyal readers. Our first story of the year was posted in February, when we lauded Lawrence Wright's excellent, lengthy New Yorker profile of church de ... More >>

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    May 13, 2011

    Scientology Thunderdome: Best Commenters of the Week

    Please fasten your seatbelts. Enturbulation ahead.​What a fun week it's been for Scientology watchers! With just a few hours before the weekend starts, let's take a look at who impressed us the most with their comments, both for and against L. Ron Hubbard's wacky cabal! First, on the anti sid ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 12, 2011

    Paulette Cooper's Statement on Tom Cruise Winning a Humanitarian Award

    Paulette Cooper​Last week, at a ceremony in Beverly Hills, the Simon Wiesenthal Center gave Tom Cruise its annual Humanitarian Award. As we pointed out earlier, this did not go down well with people who wondered why such a famous pro-justice organization would give an award to a man almost syn ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 12, 2011

    Video From the Lone Dude Protesting Tom Cruise's Humanitarian Award

    We were looking forward to some reports from last Thursday night's gala at the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Beverly Hills, where Tom Cruise received his humanitarian award. But we noticed, as it approached, that normally assertive anti-Scientology protester-types in Los Angeles had put out the word ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 5, 2011

    Howard Stern Questions A Former Scientology Private Eye

    Chaupetta, left, with male and female employees he uses to tempt targets into cheating. (What a guy!)​While we wait for reports on tonight's drama in Beverly Hills -- where Tom Cruise will be receiving a Humanitarian Award from the Simon Wiesenthal Center for all his years hunting down disembo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 26, 2011

    Is Tom Cruise Worthy of a Simon Wiesenthal Award? Also: Scientology's Building Spree

    ​Jewish Journal writer Danielle Berrin recently took on a subject that has Scientology watchers chattering. On May 5, L.A.'s famous anti-Nazi organization, the Simon Wiesenthal Center, will bestow on Tom Cruise its 2011 Humanitarian Award. As Berrin points out, Cruise isn't exactly known for ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 26, 2009

    GRAND OL' PAGAN: What Does the Republican 'Heathen' Running for New York's City Council Actually Believe?

    In a photograph from New Normandy's website, Dan Halloran leads a heathen ritual.​Conservative. Republican. Pagan? It was an odd news story that briefly upended what should have been a sleepy City Council race in Bayside: the Queens Tribune reported that a conservative Republican was running ... More >>

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