Word: bris
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...eight-day-old Noah Wayne Whitehead underwent minor surgery in Grays Common Room yesterday in front of about 20 friends and family members, who convened for the infant's bris, a traditional Jewish naming ceremony that celebrates a covenant with God and the entrance of a boy into the Jewish community...
...hard to watch," said Wolfson, who had never attended a bris before. "It's nice, though...
People at the bris speculated that such a ceremony may never have been held in a Yard dorm before...
...This is the first Harvard Yard bris probably on record," said Robert M. Levenson, the Mohel who performed the circumcision and the ceremony. "This is one of the most unusual places I've done...
Despite the excitement, the bris was difficult for some observers to stomach...