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Romeo And Juliet in Yiddish/Working On Script

What's the broch, you ask? Well, do you think that Shakespeare would like a bunch of dropouts who speak neither language properly to do this kind of work? I see a Lubavitcher and a couple of Heimishes (Satmar and such) working on this translation, with an artsy type lady directing. These kids are still haunted by the fact that they weren't allowed to wear metal-framed glasses nor have buckles on their belts. It shows you what their intellectual capacity consists of. The fact that they would be chosen to translate the works of Willy Shake shows us what kind of knowledge of Yiddish the directors of this project have. Is all that's necessary for a monumental project like that the fact that these guys were once frum and spoke a distant relative of the Yiddish language? Isn't there anybody at the Arbeiter Ring that could do this? Maybe they want the frum flavor in the translation, so that they can begin to teach it at Beis Ruchel...

Which brings us back to the problem of OTD youth. It seems like these chevrah still are wandering around aimlessly, and have yet to be integrated into any society. They may dress like regular Joes and drink expensive, overpriced coffee, but they're still Yoelis and Mendys and Zalmys, if you get my drift. They can never get over the beliefs and feelings that they were taught as children, even if they do hate much of what they were taught. They also lack any kind of real skills, at least most of them do. Maybe that was the plan all along; teach them nothing, no language, no skills, that way if and when they leave they'll be so miserable that they'll eventually come running back! if that was the plan then they succeeded. On the other hand, maybe these kids have "issues," in which case we needn't worry about them........