Word: oyamaifat
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...tried to think of the intent of the character Oyamaifat (I don't remember his exact name). I realized there was a lot of making-fun going on during the play about male/female issues, Latino machismo, etc. I tried to make excuses for having the Jewish character contrived as such, but I could not. They were making fun of an ethnicity, a race. It frankly surprises me that students at Harvard University, who are supposedly so "educated" and welcoming of diversity, are really so ignorant...
...talit (the bib Oyamaifat wore) is an extremely religious article. Jews kiss it and pray every time they put it on and kiss it when they take it off. Many boys receive them as gifts for their Bar Mitzvahs and treasure them their entire lives, even if they are not religious. Cutting the talit to serve as a bib is completely offensive (and I am not religious...
...guarantee that my father and each member of his family who endured and survived the atrocities during the war, each of the six million Jews who perished at the hands of evil and ignorance--each of these Jews would find absolutely no humor in the character Oyamaifat. I hope the actors, writers and producers of "Paradise Lost-and-Found" will learn something about the suffering during the war, something about tolerance for diversity and about the danger of something "innocent," like stereotyped appearances. SUSANNE WEINRAUCH, M.D. March...
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