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As creativity continues on its journey of circumnavigating the bowl, NBC has come up with a new show based on the tired old hospital-based drama that feels as if it has been around since Hippocrates applied his first bandaid and swore an oath.
But now the network is catching heat for it Wednesday episode of "Nurses," in which there was "an offensive portrayal of an Orthodox Jew" that was immediately labeled "anti-Semitic" by social media users, according to the Florida Sun-Sentinel.
Had the network singled out Muslims instead of Jews, the show would have been just as offensive and disgusting, but never let it be said that NBC has the stones to pick on the "Religion of Peace."
“The objectionable storyline occurred on an episode of ‘Nurses,’ a Canadian hour-long drama following a group of nurses in a Toronto hospital. In the episode, a young Hasidic patient is told he will need a bone graft to heal his broken leg, leading his devout father to recoil at the possibility of a ‘dead goyim leg from anyone. An Arab, a woman,'” the outlet explained.
The episode is actually a string of bizarre and utterly false depictions of Orthodox Jewish individuals.
“The idea that such a surgery would be problematic in general or problematic because of where the bone came from not only is categorically false according to Jewish law, it is a vicious lie that endangers men who walk around with curled side-locks [known as payot] and black hats,” she said, referring to Hasidic males.
“For those of you unfamiliar with Jewish law, which puts precedent on healing and saving lives, there is no prohibition on the kind of bone graft in this clip. The writers made it up, dressed their actors in Jew-face, and put random extremist nonsense in their mouths,” another commentator, Liza Rosen, added.
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Had the network singled out Muslims instead of Jews, the show would have been just as offensive and disgusting, but never let it be said that NBC has the stones to pick on the "Religion of Peace."
“The objectionable storyline occurred on an episode of ‘Nurses,’ a Canadian hour-long drama following a group of nurses in a Toronto hospital. In the episode, a young Hasidic patient is told he will need a bone graft to heal his broken leg, leading his devout father to recoil at the possibility of a ‘dead goyim leg from anyone. An Arab, a woman,'” the outlet explained.
The word "goyim" is a Yiddish word for a non-Jewish person.
The episode is actually a string of bizarre and utterly false depictions of Orthodox Jewish individuals.
The son, who is suffering from a broken leg, skipped shul [synagogue] to play basketball — an activity he, the show says, is forbidden from. And after it is explained he will need a bone graft, one of the main character nurses (who is an admitted atheist) attempts to quote scripture to the pair — who will not speak to her because, being religious zealots, they do not speak to women — and then claims to be a messenger of God warning the pair to acquiesce to medical treatment.
Orthodox Jews do speak to women [e.g., Ben Shapiro; e.g., Dennis Prager]. Hasidic Jews also speak to women, but they do not shake hands with them and vice-versa for Hasidic women.
The nurse eventually loses the argument, the Jews choose prayer over medicine, and the boy is escorted out of the hospital, while in the voiceover, the nurse says, “What do we do when we can’t save someone? Faced with a battle that can’t be won?”
The nurse eventually loses the argument, the Jews choose prayer over medicine, and the boy is escorted out of the hospital, while in the voiceover, the nurse says, “What do we do when we can’t save someone? Faced with a battle that can’t be won?”
How many idiots like this nurse can fit on the head of a pin?
The interaction shocked viewers — particularly Jewish viewers — prompting an outcry on social media. BECAUSE THE PREMISE OF THE STORY IS BULL-CRAP!
The interaction shocked viewers — particularly Jewish viewers — prompting an outcry on social media. BECAUSE THE PREMISE OF THE STORY IS BULL-CRAP!
The American Jewish Committee (AJC) tweeted:
“Twice in one week, @NBC? First we heard Michael Che’s antisemitic falsehood on @NBCSNL. Now ‘Nurses’ employs this disgusting depiction of Orthodox Jews. Continuous, negative portrayal of Jews invites antisemitism to flourish.”
The AJC was referring to a Weekend Update segment from the last Saturday Night Live show when Michael Che implied that Israel was only administering the COVID-19 vaccine to Jewish residents--another pile of smoking bull-crap.
A blogger who posts about Orthodox Jewish life, explained why the episode was incredibly insulting to Jews.
“The idea that such a surgery would be problematic in general or problematic because of where the bone came from not only is categorically false according to Jewish law, it is a vicious lie that endangers men who walk around with curled side-locks [known as payot] and black hats,” she said, referring to Hasidic males.
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| Bar Mitzvah boy with payot |
“For those of you unfamiliar with Jewish law, which puts precedent on healing and saving lives, there is no prohibition on the kind of bone graft in this clip. The writers made it up, dressed their actors in Jew-face, and put random extremist nonsense in their mouths,” another commentator, Liza Rosen, added.
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) demanded that NBC pull the episode and “review their standards for approving dramatic content so that this doesn’t happen in the future.”
NBC has since pulled the show.
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