Believer or not, Cristina knows how to effectively make use of the great Jewish tradition of guilt, comparing her problems at work to the Holocaust. (There’s a list involved. One list means life…you see where it’s going.) And when Izzy’s (Katherine Heigl) patient/fiancé dies at the end of Season 2 (don’t worry, he comes back, see above re: ghost/hallucination), Cristina is the only one around who doesn’t panic. “I know what to do when someone dies. I am a Jew. I know food and death, it’s shiva.” Cristina’s knowledge of shiva is thorough—she explains that shiva is a week with no mirrors, no sitting on anything higher than a foot, no clean clothes, and no sex (a week is a VERY long time to go without sex on Grey’s). So, we have a spiritually alienated young Jew who instinctively falls back on religion in moments of crisis. Grey’s Anatomy just got real. (via Jewcy.com | Network Jews: Cristina Yang from ABC’s Hospital Drama, ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ by)
