Abcarian: Was it OK for 'The Bear' to use this Jewish slur?
The character Sydney Adamu is an ambitious Black woman chef. Seeing a woman like her onscreen was revelatory, and changes who is seen as desirable.. “While condemned in the show, it’s crucial to grasp the problematic nature of this phrase.”“‘Jewish lightning’ ... is a phrase rooted in Jewish stereotypes of stinginess and greed” and “it is an ethnic slur that should be condemned.
I asked Rob Eshman, former publisher and editor in chief of L.A.’s Jewish Journal and now senior contributing editor at the Forward.
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