Ellise Shafer administratorNBC has removed the “Nurses” episode “Achilles Heels” from digital platforms and future airings following backlash over a storyline involving a man from the Orthodox Jewish community.The episode of the Canadian sitcom, which aired Feb.
9, contains a scene in which a young Orthodox Jewish man named Israel is hospitalized for a shattered leg. A doctor informs Israel and his father, who insists that “the Creator” will heal him, that Israel will require a bone graft, meaning part of a cadaver’s leg would be surgically inserted into his leg.“You want to put a dead leg inside of me?” Israel asks the doctor. “A dead goyim leg — from anyone.
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