{"id":53908,"date":"2014-04-29T13:22:05","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T21:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=53908"},"modified":"2015-04-12T17:37:13","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T01:37:13","slug":"marvin-hiers-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=53908","title":{"rendered":"Rabbi Marvin Hier’s Legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saul Austerlitz writes for Tablet magazine<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Hier\u2019s remarkable success is, in fact, the primary cause of his detractors\u2019 dissatisfaction. \u201cHe\u2019s like a high-rent, ethical version of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton,\u201d said Luke Ford, a Los Angeles blogger who covers the Jewish world and has written about Hier. \u201cA fantastic hustler. He knows how to work with the goyim, he\u2019s a master of it, he knows how to do it in a way that brings status to him and to the Jews.\u201d For his part, Hier has heard all the queries and complaints before and often jumps in to answer them\u2014even before they have been asked. \u201cSome of the critics say, \u2018Why do you use stars?\u2019 \u201d he told me. \u201cWell, who should we use? We could say like this: Chaim Bernstein is narrating the first film, Shoshana Feldman is narrating the second film. That won\u2019t go anywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n

…And some observers see Moriah\u2019s appeal as even more directly linked to Hier. \u201cJews dominate Hollywood, and this guy is an authentic Jew. He\u2019s Orthodox. So, he\u2019s the real deal,\u201d said Ford. \u201cAnd so if you work for free for him, you\u2019re doing the real thing for the Jews, and you\u2019re enhancing your status in Hollywood. There\u2019s no downside to it. You network with other powerful people in Hollywood, and it\u2019s just win-win-win.\u201d Ford argues that working with Moriah is a means of building one\u2019s Hollywood cachet. \u201cIt\u2019s like the opposite of saying anything bad about Jews,\u201d said Ford, who mentions Mel Gibson\u2019s tirades as an example of a career-ending anti-Semitic faux pas. \u201cIt shows how cool you are. It\u2019s the ultimate fashion statement. And you\u2019re doing it for someone who\u2019s got a really good brand.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Saul Austerlitz writes for Tablet magazine: Hier\u2019s remarkable success is, in fact, the primary cause of his detractors\u2019 dissatisfaction. \u201cHe\u2019s like a high-rent, ethical version of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton,\u201d said Luke Ford, a Los Angeles blogger who covers … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29721],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-r-marvin-hier"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53908"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67513,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53908\/revisions\/67513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}