NBC is pulling an episode of its medical drama
Nurses after falling under heavy fire for an “anti-Semitic” scene, in which a Hasidic patient refuses a bone graft from a “goyim” the Yiddish word for a non-Jewish person.
“The graft, where does it come from?” asks the Hasidic patient in the scene.
“It’s called an allo bone graft, it’s harvested from a deceased donor,” replies the doctor.
“A goyim leg, from anyone, an Arab? A woman?” asks a second Hasidic character.
“Or God forbid an Arab woman,” says a third character.
Allison Josephs founder of the nonprofit organization Jew in the City resurfaced the clip Tuesday on Twitter, where she included her blog post calling on NBC to apologize for its
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