NBC has decided that it would no longer offer the season finale of its Canadian series Nurses on its digital platforms after a certain scene prompted outrage from Jewish groups, the online media portal Deadline reported on Wednesday.
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The decision comes after the airing of the final episode of the medical drama series, which had an ultra-Orthodox Jew turn down a bone graft because it could be from gentiles.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center lashed out at that depiction, saying that the writers were apparently determined to "check all the boxes of ignorance and pernicious negative stereotypes, right down to the name of the patient" and "demonized religious Jews and Judaism," it said.
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