Last summer, we covered a case in which a juror was removed for making slurs about Isaac Larian’s ethnicity, the Jewish, Iranian-born CEO of MGA, maker of Bratz, calling Iranians: “rude” and “thieves” who have “stolen other person’s [sic] ideas,” during a legal battle between Mattel and Barbie.
Last year, a juror in the Barbie vs. Bratz trial was removed for making “slurs about the ethnicity of Isaac Larian, the Jewish, Iranian-born CEO of MGA, maker of Bratz.” The jury-member’s hypocritcal verbal attack, calling Iranians: “rude” and “thieves” who have “stolen other person’s [sic] ideas”, leaves us pondering whether this juror should move out of their sheer [...]
We think – and we realize that this is pure speculation – that the slang Yiddish term, “Oy Vey”, which roughly means: “Oh No”, may very well have been created by, or at least derives from the Persian Jews. The Farsi slang for “Oh No”, is “Ey Vay” – pronounced: ay-vaay – and is used [...]