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		<title>A Bris and a Baptism</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:37:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frances Silverglate</dc:creator>
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I&#8217;m not a fan of circumcision, though the bris milah is required for male Jewish children and is considered an essential component of Jewish identity. I do know some modern Jews now have the ceremony of the bris without the actual circumcision. When my sons were born in 1962 and 1963, I didn&#8217;t want to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Sacrifice of Isaac</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:52:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frances Silverglate</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few years ago during Yom Kippur, the holiest holiday on the Jewish calendar, I was in a little wooden synagogue on the Lower East Side of New York City. The rabbi, a venerable man whose voice carried throughout the temple, was extremely charismatic. For the first time in my temple-going life, I found myself listening intently to the sermon.]]></description>
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		<title>The Bris</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 20:29:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frances Silverglate</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eight days after birth, a Jewish male infant is circumcised in a ceremony called the bris milah (bris means &#8220;covenant&#8221; in Hebrew). It&#8217;s a party: relatives and friends gather to watch; the baby gets a drop of wine to dull the pain and then sits on his grandfather&#8217;s lap; his grandfather holds him steady. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Uncomfortable Agnostic</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jan 2007 20:10:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frances Silverglate</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was a cold day in October, and I was walking down a street on New York&#8217;s Lower East Side, toward a small wooden building with a flight of steps at the front. Built in 1820 as a synagogue, it had only recently been reconsecrated and put back into use as a place of worship. [...]]]></description>
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