An episode of “The Practice” that aired Sunday elicited an outcry from Jewish viewers of the popular ABC television series. Anti-Defamation League offices across the country say they have been “deluged” by calls about the show’s depiction of a legal case in which a synagogue offers to settle with an African-American woman who accuses its rabbi of rape. In a letter to the show’s executive producer, David Kelley, ADL National Director Abraham Foxman chastises the program for evoking “an ages-old canard about Jews and money” and for portraying the synagogue’s board as “conniving, insular Jews, scheming and plotting.”
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