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Did Marjorie Taylor Greene Convert to Judaism?
I was a seventh-grade student in a New York City public school in 1956. Every day my home room teacher would make us bow our heads while she read a portion from the New Testament. The year before Al Shanker had gotten the first teacher’s contract that had a pension, and a bunch of little, old biddies left the parochial school system and came into the public school system to pick up a few retirement bucks.
My home room teacher, Mrs. Burfield, told me that if I didn’t bow my head while she read the Bible I had to leave the classroom and stand out in the hall. I was only twelve years old, but I was Jewish, and I knew that I couldn’t bow my head and show that I believed in Jesus Christ.
So, every school day I spent a few minutes in the hallway playing with my Duncan yo-yo and talking to other kids who walked by. I suppose I was supposed to feel that something bad was happening, but the truth is I really didn’t care. I also didn’t say anything at home because I knew my mother would come to the school and make a scene.
I recalled this episode yesterday when I happened to see the Yom Kippur picture (above) that Marjorie Taylor Greene posted on her X page, for which she has gotten all kinds of flack. She actually has three holidays combined as one — the Hanukah menorah, the ram’s horn which is tooted in the synagogue on…