[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 13]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 18314]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




   WASHINGTON, D.C., CELEBRATING A CAPITOL HILL EXHIBIT BY THE SIMON 
                      WIESENTHAL CENTER AND UNESCO

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                            HON. KAREN BASS

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                       Tuesday, November 17, 2015

  Ms. BASS. Mr. Speaker, it is with great pleasure that I recognize and 
congratulate the Simon Wiesenthal Center and its Museum of Tolerance 
for commitment to leadership in promoting tolerance worldwide. I am 
proud to represent these important institutions as part of California's 
37th Congressional District. Located in Los Angeles, they have a 
worldwide mission.
  Together with UNESCO, the Wiesenthal Center has created a traveling 
exhibition, opening today in Washington, D.C., entitled Book. People. 
Land.: The 3,500 Year Relationship Between the Jewish People and the 
Holy Land. This exhibit, sponsored by the U.S., Canada and Israel, aims 
to highlight the Jewish values of scholarship, human dignity and 
justice, and links them through history to the Jewish homeland.
  My friends and fellow Foreign Affairs Committee members, Chair Ed 
Royce and Ranking Member Eliot Engel, cooperated in arranging this 
Capitol Hill opening. Book. People. Land. will soon travel to Israel's 
Knesset and Vatican City under the supervision of its Project Director, 
Wiesenthal Center Associate Dean Rabbi Abraham Cooper.
  As the public and invited guests celebrate this partnership with 
UNESCO, the opening of this exhibit, and the Wiesenthal Center's 
message of human dignity, I am proud to recognize all those involved in 
this important undertaking.

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