NBC under fire for portrayal of Orthodox Jews
March 12, 2021
(JTA) Jewish groups are criticizing NBC for airing an offensive portrayal of an Orthodox Jew on one of its medical dramas.
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 incident occurs in the series’ eighth episode, “Achilles Heel,” which originally aired on NBC on Feb. 9..
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