heritage quiet. Köves was attacked by Mazsihisz for both accepting Szegedi and then later for being suspicious of Jobbik's “switch” to a centrist party line (Szegedi had since left the party). Köves maintains that Jobbik's past has made it a symbol of racism and antisemitism and they would have to do much more than simply say they had changed. There was further controversy when Köves essentially rejected Jobbik leader Gábor Vona's Hanukkah greeting in 2016. But as Hungarian Free Press aptly noted: “Mr. Vona is naive or perhaps overly optimistic to think that one Hanukkah greeting sent to Rabbi Köves would somehow erase years of antisemitism.” The situation was not aided by one Jobbik chapter posting on Facebook that they support no one who would have such “a crazy idea”, that is, to send Hanukkah greetings. The House of Fates The House of Fates project initiated originally by the Hungarian government in 2013 was meant to create a high-tech, memorable and thought-provoking experience for people looking to learn more about the Holocaust. Although the building of the museum (approximately 100,000 square feet) was finished in 2015, the project came to a halt because of a controversy around the leading curator, Maria Schmidt, who according to some, was too politically involved and may have intended to whitewash Hungary's role in the holocaust and deportation of Hungarian Jews. After many years of delay, Köves took over the project upon the request of the Hungarian government. Still, some falsely claimed that he was only covering up for Schmidt and the government's hidden political intentions. Köves pushed back, stating that those causing an uproar are “criticizing content that doesn’t even exist yet” and asking critics, specifically head of Mazsihisz, Andras Heisler, to “put aside political agendas, community politics and his personal interests”. The Daily Beast went so far as to call Schmidt “the leader of a movement to rewrite the Holocaust” and the museum itself a “revisionist Holocaust museum”. One commentary by a Yad Vashem historian in the Times of Israel called out what appeared to be attempts to make Hungarians appear “blameless” in “a grave falsification of history”. Given the continued controversy and distraction from the important work at stake, Köves removed Schmidt from the project and appointed Yitzhak Mais, a well-known holocaust historian and museum specialist, who headed up the Yad Vashem museum between 1983 and 1995. Köves also hired the Washington-based