Newsgroup: it.cultura.ebraica
Titolo: Della serie: facciamoci del male

http://www.forward.com/issues/2003/03.12.19/news4a.html
L'articolo spiega come a Rav Saadia Grama, allievo di una rinomata yeshivah
ultraortodossa, sia venuto in mente di scrivere un libro razzista, e di come
diversi suoi colleghi, dopo aver imprudentemente lodato il libro senza
averlo prima letto bene, stiano facendo precipitosamente marcia indietro.
L'articolo si prende inoltre la briga di esaminare alcune venature razziste
del pensiero ebraico (l'esempio più noto si può leggere qui:
http://www.foreveryjew.com/tanya/tanya1-2.html
) avvertendo però che esse sono rimaste largamente minoritarie nel corso
della storia, e che il testo di Grama risulta la prima compiuta
teorizzazione razzista ebraica di cui siamo a conoscenza.
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La redazione di Forward risponde alle critiche ricevute per questo ed altri
articoli con quello che vi riporto, e che si puň riassumere cosě: Levitico
19 comanda sě di non malignare, ma anche di compiere quella che altri
chiamerebbero "correzione fraterna", ovvero non lasciare che il tuo prossimo
commetta il male senza ammonirlo (con garbo).
La "deontologia" di Forward si ispira a questo libro biblico; l'obiezione di
molti che certi articoli possono attizzare l'antisemitismo deve cedere di
fronte al dovere di combattere l'ignoranza e la corruzione.
Ciao.
Sanctification
In Chapter 19 of the biblical book of Leviticus, in the Torah portion known
as Kedoshim ("Ye shall be holy"), the Israelites received a string of
commandments that define what we like to think of as the ethics of public
discourse. Beginning in Verse 15, we are commanded, first, to "respect not
the poor nor favor the rich," but to judge our neighbors in righteousness;
next, not to "go up and down as a tale-bearer among the people," nor to
"stand idly by the blood" of our neighbor; and then, as though contradicting
the last command, to "rebuke thy neighbor and not bear sin because of him."
Following in the very next verse is the sublime commandment that covers all
the rest: "Love thy neighbor as thyself."
The verses capture perfectly the conundrum facing journalists, especially
those who seek to report on Jewish community life. We are forbidden to go
around bearing tales, yet we must rebuke our neighbors and not bear their
sins. How do we do that? By sticking to the truth, by reporting what matters
— and by making sure that we do what we do out of love.
We at the Forward are constantly juggling those conflicting concerns. As a
newspaper that covers the life of the Jewish community, we report stories
that make some people uncomfortable. Not infrequently, we're warned that by
airing our community's dirty laundry in public we're giving comfort to our
enemies. It's a caution we take seriously. We don't want to go around as a
tale-bearer. But we're no less serious about our duty to rebuke. Keeping the
truth under wraps for fear of fueling antisemitism means allowing ignorance
and corruption to thrive in the darkness. Our job is to throw open the
windows and let in the sunlight.
Surprisingly, the most intense reactions we've encountered in recent months
have been to our translations from Hebrew. Last August we raised a furor by
translating an essay by a former Knesset speaker, Avraham Burg, arguing that
Israel faced disaster if it did not separate from the Palestinians. It was a
commonplace view in Israel, but almost unknown among Israel's supporters
here, and many were furious at us for making it available. A few weeks after
that, we translated an essay by Natan Sharansky, Israel's minister for
Diaspora affairs, reporting gloomily on the anti-Israel mood he'd found
during a tour of American campuses. That caused a furor among pro-Israel
activists who felt their work was undervalued and misunderstood.
This week we caused a furor even before publication by reporting on a
Hebrew-language book published in New Jersey by an Orthodox rabbi who
considers Jews a superior race. He represents a tiny minority, yet his book
was being sold openly on the streets of Brooklyn, with the blessings of
rabbinic leaders — until we found out about it. Once we started reporting,
we were warned that our publishing the story would fuel antisemitism. Leave
it alone, we were told. But that would have meant standing idly by.
There was a time, decades ago, when American Jews had a robust daily press
in Yiddish where they could air their internal disputes without fear of the
neighbors catching on. In those days, the English-language Jewish press
existed mainly to defend the Jews' good name, at a time when few others
would do so.
Things have changed. Yiddish is no longer a unifying Jewish language. If we
can't talk to one another in English, we can't talk to one another at all.
At the same time, we're no longer so alone in the world that we must depend
on communal weeklies to defend us. Nor are we defenseless when our enemies
attack. We can afford the truth. What we can't afford is to cover it up.
This week we celebrate Chanukah, recalling the Maccabees' sanctification of
the Temple in Jerusalem. Today we have no more temple. Now the holiness is
all around us, and we are all its guardians.
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 teorizzazione razzista ebraica di cui siamo a conoscenza.
E non sarà forse questo che l'avrà spinto a scriverlo? Secondo me, sì.
Che poi... di che si tratta? del "rimanere nella Storia" o del solo
avere notorietà/denaro in quest'esistenza? mah!
*Per me*, entrambi gli obiettivi sarebbero (sono) deprecabili...
Saluti,
LesaLumier
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Pexo la topa de lo sbrego, dicono a Verona.
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Com'era da aspettarsi, il dibattito continua.
- Agudat Yisrael rifiuta di condannare il libro incriminato e ritiene invece
che Forward abbia scritto un reportage antisemita; al che Forward risponde
per le rime:
http://www.forward.com/issues/2004/04.01.16/news9.lakewood.html
- Rav Yosef Blau cerca di dare un colpo al cerchio ed uno alla botte,
parlando del libro di Rav Sa'adia Grama:
http://www.forward.com/issues/2004/04.01.16/oped4.html
- Qui invece si parla di un articolo che può creare un pericoloso equivoco
nel lettore inesperto o non-ebreo. Delle varie opinioni riportate da Nacha
Chattan, l'autore del reportage di Forward, condivido quella che è bene
rammentare che non è detto che gli scritti di un rabbino o di uno studente
finiscano solo in mano a persone che sanno dare il giusto peso ad ogni
parola o citazione, e che usare un po' di riguardo per gli inesperti od i
non-ebrei (spiegando e precisando anche quello che per un collega
dell'autore è un'ovvietà) è certo molto utile.
http://www.forward.com/issues/2004/04.01.16/news10.yu.html
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