After we recently reported on the offensive and inaccurate portrayal in NBC’s “Nurses,” and its subsequent removal, we thought it was important to explain how other episodes have missed the mark when depicting the Orthodox community in order to inspire TV writers and producers to do bettter. In season 9, Law and Order SVU had […]
In light of NBC’s recent pulling of the controversial episode after misrepresenting Orthodox Judaism in their show “Nurses,” as an author and screenwriter, I suggested to Jew and the City that they follow the trends that have been created for other minority groups, like the THE BECHDEL TEST. THE BECHDEL TEST names the following three criteria to […]
NBC-TV pulls episode of `Nurses’ after charges it presented inflammatory portrayal of Hasidic Jews; Allison Josephs, director of Jew in the City website that first protested the program, explains to Calev Ben-David why she found it so objectionable, on The Rundown on i24NEWS. And B’nai Brith Canada gets Entertainment One, the producers of the episode, […]
On Tuesday afternoon, we published this response to a shockingly pernicious, anti-Orthodox segment of NBC’s new show “Nurses.” We then posted a clip we filmed onto our Instagram and Twitter. The tweet went viral – the clip garnering almost 1 million views in a day – and suddenly news organizations started noticing. First FoxNews, then Hollywood reporter, JTA, […]
In just a short time, Jews all over the world and from all walks of life will once again read the beautiful Purim story. It’s one for the ages: how the Jewish People were saved through the hands of Esther and Mordechai from a bitter enemy that threatened our annihilation. There are so many layers […]
UPDATE: We’re thrilled to announce that NBC has pulled this episode after we broke this story and it went viral! If you’re up in arms about the SNL joke that aired this past weekend, claiming that Israel only vaccinates Jews against Covid, be prepared for more outrage. NBC has another apology (and hopefully further education […]
