Seattle, WA – Retail giant Nordstrom has pulled the plug on a women’s Hanukkah sweater featuring the slogan “Chai Maintenance” atop a menorah amid backlash and charges of anti-Semitism on social media.
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CHICAGOTRIBUNE.com (http://trib.in/1O6PsHR) reports that Nordstrom made the decision to axe the sweater on Thursday after the retailer’s Facebook page was inundated with negative posts pertaining to the play-on-words holiday sweater.
One Facebook post charging anti-Semitism read, “I’m very disturbed by this sweater and the negative stereotype of Jewish women.”
Reps for Nordstrom responded by posting the sweater “wasn’t something we should have offered and are no longer offering it.”
Nobody has sense of humor,
Anti Semitism?? Really? Grow up.
Do all these things end up someplace poor where people wear them without being able to read them?
Pu. .Leese
Give us all a break from phoney PC.
I think it’s clever, and would wear an apron with that same message.
this sweater is cute and if you don’t like it then you don’t have to buy it.
BUT, I am much more disturbed by a Nordstrom ad –
it’s shows a guy coming home from work to a welcoming dog and then his partner appears (male partner) and they kiss on the lips. They are despicable!
they are pandering to this sick perverted world.
Nordstrom should be avoided for brazenly promoting this behavior. Why do we all have to know about this type of behavior? Why encourage publicizing this behavior?
Everyone has b’chira but that does not mean all acts of perversion has to be shoved down our faces.