The Delegacion de Associaciones Israelitas Argentinas (DAIA), the central organization of Argentine Jewry, has rejected Channel 13’s position that "only" two episodes in its series "The Beginning and the End" depicted Jews as villains. In reply to the television station’s charge that the DAIA was magnifying the issue out of proportion, the Jewish association retorted: "We unmagnify but we also unminimize. None of the criticized episodes was educational. They only propagate discrimination." The DAIA had concentrated its criticism on the episode titled "The Frustration," in which a Jew swindles 150 families through financial manipulation. The weekly series dramatizes true cases of corruption.
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