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	<title>Comments on: Anatomy of a Smear</title>
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		<title>By: ralphie</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2005 18:50:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I blogged about this episode &lt;a href="http://kerckhoff.blogspot.com/2005/05/forward-newspaper-online-tinseltown.html" rel="nofollow"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://kerckhoff.blogspot.com/2005/05/jews-on-tube.html" rel="nofollow"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. The character and storyline were pretty much preposterous, but I wouldn't call it damaging. 

And I wouldn't call the female rabbi character a hero, necessarily. She appears for about 10 seconds, in the operating room, in full scrubs including cap and mask. She contributes nothing to the issue of animal heart transplants and Jewish law - she just sings a couple of lines from the mishaberach for the sick just before the patient goes under. I would bet that 95% of viewers had no idea what was going on (this happened straight from a cut with no explanation or introduction) or that this masked person was supposed to be a rabbi.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I blogged about this episode <a href="http://kerckhoff.blogspot.com/2005/05/forward-newspaper-online-tinseltown.html" rel="nofollow">here</a> and <a href="http://kerckhoff.blogspot.com/2005/05/jews-on-tube.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>. The character and storyline were pretty much preposterous, but I wouldn&#8217;t call it damaging. </p>
<p>And I wouldn&#8217;t call the female rabbi character a hero, necessarily. She appears for about 10 seconds, in the operating room, in full scrubs including cap and mask. She contributes nothing to the issue of animal heart transplants and Jewish law - she just sings a couple of lines from the mishaberach for the sick just before the patient goes under. I would bet that 95% of viewers had no idea what was going on (this happened straight from a cut with no explanation or introduction) or that this masked person was supposed to be a rabbi.</p>
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