{"id":7724,"date":"2004-03-15T07:35:12","date_gmt":"2004-03-15T07:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2004\/03\/nat_hentoff_1.html"},"modified":"2004-03-15T07:35:12","modified_gmt":"2004-03-15T07:35:12","slug":"nat_hentoff_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2004\/03\/nat_hentoff_1.html","title":{"rendered":"Nat Hentoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/villagevoice.com\/alertrd.php3?article=51811\">on the Passion<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But, as to the civil war among Jews, the Forward quotes Malcolm Hoenlein, an official at the Conference of Presidents of Major Amercan Jewish Organizations, as say- ing-in concert with prominent Jews who deplore<br \/>\nJewish critics of the movie: &#8220;Frankly . . . we should have Christians out front speaking about it. . . . There is a legitimate debate that tickets were sold by virtue of the controversy and that the better part of wisdom would have been to deal with it quietly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That attitude is what impelled me to write about this bristling debate among Jews. I have talked about the movie with the outspoken rabbi Marvin Hier,founder and dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles. Because of what I experienced covering anti-Semitism as a college journalist in Boston<br \/>\nlong ago, I thoroughly agree with what Rabbi Hier told the Forward: &#8220;Our history has taught us we have paid a dear price by listening to the mentality of the shtetl Jews who said, sha shtil,&#8221; Yiddish for keep <br \/>\nquiet and don&#8217;t stir up the goyim.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>on the Passion But, as to the civil war among Jews, the Forward quotes Malcolm Hoenlein, an official at the Conference of Presidents of Major Amercan Jewish Organizations, as say- ing-in concert with prominent Jews who deplore Jewish critics of the movie: &#8220;Frankly . . . we should have Christians out front speaking about it.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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