Meant to Be

He is a spectacular American success story: an Orthodox rabbi who founded an international human rights organization, earned two Academy Awards, and is the driving force behind a state-of-the-art Jerusalem museum. Here rabbi Marvin Heir recounts the birth of the Simon Wiesenthal center, Moriah Films, and the Museum of Tolerance, and shares anecdotes from his interactions with three popes, US presidents from Jimmy Carter to Barack Obama, King Hussein, Frank Sinatra, Elizabeth Taylor, Michael Jackson and more. With classic Jewish humor, he discerns the interplay of instinctiveness, serendipity, and chutzpah that has enabled him to realize the lesson imparted to him by his beloved grandmother: "Everything in life is meant to be."