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ADL reaches out to Catholic and Pentacostal Latinos
The Anti-Defamation League’s annual survey on anti-Semitism showed that 42% of immigrant Latinos hold classic anti-Jewish attitudes, the highest percent of any ethnic community.
Among second-generation Latinos, the number drops to “the high 20s,” says Rabbi Gary Bretton-Granatoor, ADL director of interfaith affairs. In the black community, 20-21% have anti-Semitic viewpoints, the poll shows.
Living in this country clearly moderates over time Latinos’ anti-Jewish views. To help the process along, the ADL has begun a program of Latino outreach in cities with large Hispanic populations, such as New York, Chicago and Los Angeles.
One reason Catholic Latinos hold such negative attitudes about Jews is that the Vatican’s 1965 “Nostra Aetate” was not translated into Spanish for seven years. The historic document issued by the Second Vatican Council said that no Jews today are guilty of killing Jesus and that no church superceded Judaism.
By the time Hispanic priests saw the theological document, it was such old news that they most likely just tossed it in the trash, says Bretton-Granatoor. Thus, millions of Catholic Latinos today grew up with pre-Vatican II attitudes.
The ADL has created education programs for Spanish-language radio, because it discovered first-generation Latinos don’t watch much TV or read newspapers. The watchdog organization offers programs on tolerance to schools with high concentrations of Latino students. Ads in subways and bus stops carry the same message.
ADL staffers read Spanish language newspapers to monitor and respond to anti-Semitic remarks. Early childhood anti-bias programs, developed with the Children’s Television Workshop, use Sesame Street characters to teach tolerance. Partner programs for parents take place in the evenings.
The ADL participates in business roundtables to help Latinos with job training, recruitment and placing Latinos on corporate boards.
Latinos from the Dominican Republic, Haiti and other Caribbean islands are Pentecostals and are completely ignorant about Jews, Bretton-Granatoor says. So ADL staffers are teaching “Judaism 101,” in Spanish, in Pentecostal churches and schools.
“It’s all about battling anti-Semitism. Latinos are the fastest growing segment of America. We forgot to tell our (mainline) Protestant brothers and sisters (that we Jews) are different from them. We can’t afford to do that with Latinos.”
-M.H.K.
Among second-generation Latinos, the number drops to “the high 20s,” says Rabbi Gary Bretton-Granatoor, ADL director of interfaith affairs. In the black community, 20-21% have anti-Semitic viewpoints, the poll shows.
Living in this country clearly moderates over time Latinos’ anti-Jewish views. To help the process along, the ADL has begun a program of Latino outreach in cities with large Hispanic populations, such as New York, Chicago and Los Angeles.
One reason Catholic Latinos hold such negative attitudes about Jews is that the Vatican’s 1965 “Nostra Aetate” was not translated into Spanish for seven years. The historic document issued by the Second Vatican Council said that no Jews today are guilty of killing Jesus and that no church superceded Judaism.
By the time Hispanic priests saw the theological document, it was such old news that they most likely just tossed it in the trash, says Bretton-Granatoor. Thus, millions of Catholic Latinos today grew up with pre-Vatican II attitudes.
The ADL has created education programs for Spanish-language radio, because it discovered first-generation Latinos don’t watch much TV or read newspapers. The watchdog organization offers programs on tolerance to schools with high concentrations of Latino students. Ads in subways and bus stops carry the same message.
ADL staffers read Spanish language newspapers to monitor and respond to anti-Semitic remarks. Early childhood anti-bias programs, developed with the Children’s Television Workshop, use Sesame Street characters to teach tolerance. Partner programs for parents take place in the evenings.
The ADL participates in business roundtables to help Latinos with job training, recruitment and placing Latinos on corporate boards.
Latinos from the Dominican Republic, Haiti and other Caribbean islands are Pentecostals and are completely ignorant about Jews, Bretton-Granatoor says. So ADL staffers are teaching “Judaism 101,” in Spanish, in Pentecostal churches and schools.
“It’s all about battling anti-Semitism. Latinos are the fastest growing segment of America. We forgot to tell our (mainline) Protestant brothers and sisters (that we Jews) are different from them. We can’t afford to do that with Latinos.”
-M.H.K.
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