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Remember when in the band Culture Club’s 1982 hit video “Do You Really Want to Hurt Me,” Boy George became a legend in the Jewish world for wearing a t-shirt printed in Hebrew?

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Elena Felicia
Jul 29, 2026
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Remember when in the band Culture Club’s 1982 hit video “Do You Really Want to Hurt Me,” Boy George became a legend in the Jewish world for wearing a t-shirt printed in Hebrew?

And yet, if you understood some Hebrew and read the shirt closely, you knew something about it was strange.

“I had a shirt that said ‘Tarbut Agadah,’ but that was a…

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