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May 3, 2001, New York Times, National Briefing | Rockies: Utah: An End To Baptizing Jews, by Michael Janofsky,

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May 3, 2001, New York Times, National Briefing | Rockies: Utah: An End To Baptizing Jews, by Michael Janofsky,

After a request by the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has promised to remove the names of more than 200 Jews, including Albert Einstein and Israel's first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, from the church's genealogical records. The church lists names as a way to offer a choice, in after-life, of accepting or rejecting the Mormon religion. Church officials said that after a 1995 agreement with Jewish organizations, the names of several hundred thousand Holocaust victims had been removed from its genealogical database. But others remained. ''It's insulting,'' said Rabbi Marvin Hier of the Wiesenthal Center. ''What they're saying is that without baptism we won't have salvation.'' 

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