Retired U.S. Ambassador John F. Kordek was born on June 9, 1938, in Chicago, Illinois, to John and Harriet (nee Rogalski) Kordek. He died Tuesday, February 16, 2021, at home
(JTA) â When she was 10 years old, Nechama Mayer-Hirsch sat down to make puppets for a Purim spiel and crafted one of the man responsible for her fatherâs murder.
The puppet version of Adolf Hitler wasnât Mayer-Hirschâs favorite from the set she produced for the Purim theater show in 1951. That designation went to Queen Esther, the heroine who foils the planned murder of Persiaâs Jews by Haman, an official who ends up getting executed by hanging by his master King Ahasuerus.
But it was the most unusual. Rather than portraying Haman with his trademark three-pointed hat, her puppet had Hitlerâs mustache and wore a brown gabardine suit.
A supervisor at the California Department of Education was placed on paid leave this week after his writings, containing what the Anti-Defamation League termed “antisemitism, offensive Holocaust theories and hate-filled conspiracies,” were brought to the agency’s attention.
A report Wednesday in the Sacramento Bee identified Craig Heimbichner, an education administrator in the charter schools division at the CDE, according to his LinkedIn page, as someone who had “trafficked in extreme conspiracy theories for more than a decade,” including that the 9/11 attacks were an “inside job” and that Holocaust memorials are “part of a deep-state plot.”
Among the writings linked to Heimbichner is a blog post dated Jan. 24, 2013 on the website Paranoia: The Conspiracy Reader. Titled “The House of Horrors,” it claims that the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. and information that is “a staple of public education” such as “that 6 million Jews died i
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Anti-Israel Activists Defend Biden State Dept. Nominee
Uzra Zeya contributed to book on influence of Israel Lobby Internet Archive and georgetown.edu
February 24, 2021 5:00 AM
An anti-Israel publishing group is defending its former employee, a current top Biden nominee, for contributing to its book on the nefarious influence of Jewish Power over U.S. Middle East policy, following a report by the
Washington Free Beacon last week.
As a staffer at the
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, Uzra Zeya compiled research for the a book that argues the Israel lobby has subverted the American political process to take control of U.S. Middle East policy by establishing a secret network of dirty money PACs that bribe and extort congressional candidates into taking pro-Israel positions.