Congressional Hopeful Denies Holocaust [Forward]
Arthur Jones, a Lyons, Ill. insurance salesman, is seeking the Republican congressional nomination to run against Democratic incumbent Dan Lipinski for Illinois’s 3rd Congressional District this fall. His credentials include being an active member of the National Socialist Party, participating in their march on Chicago’s Marquette Park in 1978.
Historic Chicago Synagogue Faces Demolition [Tablet]
Anshe Kanesses was built in 1913 in Chicago’s North Lawndale neighborhood, an area once dubbed “Chicago’s Jerusalem”. It was once home to Chicago’s Russian Jewish community, one of the largest in the United States. Now, however, the congregants have gone, and the building faces the wrecking ball in any number of days.
I got my M.B.A. in Twitter… [U.S. News]
As business schools are adding Social Media based classes to their training repertoire, some graduate programs have taken it to the next step, and are adding full blown degrees in Twitter, Facebook, and the like. However, these programs are drawing criticism from some, who regard an entire degree in social media as overkill.
“But the rise of social media-oriented M.B.A. programs has students asking how the new offerings differ from traditional programs that include social media electives. If business schools market new courses in social media as timely responses to the increasingly plugged-in business world, students and faculty wonder, should students who aspire to work in digital communications consider social-media M.B.A.’s better road maps for aspiring executives, or are they beating a dead Twitter bird?”
A new campaign [JTA]
Some pro-Israel advocates, including Elie Wiesel, have joined a campaign lobbying the U.S. State Department to remove Mujahedin-e Khalq [MEK] or the National Council of Resistance of Iran, from their list of foreign terrorist organizations. Some see the move as being part of a larger effort to enlist MEK in Israeli efforts against Iran, while others are skeptical of the group’s bloody history.
“A source close to the effort to bring pro-Israel voices into the initiative cited reports that Israel has allied with the MEK, which reportedly maintains agents in Iran and in the past has published details of Iran’s nuclear weapons program.”
