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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...
People at the bris speculated that such a ceremony may never have been held in a Yard dorm before...
Characteristically, Baryshnikov worried about whether his greatest technical feat, the showstopping, leg-beating skitter across the stage called a brisê, was dramatically justified. "Do you think it made a bad impression?" he asked after the show. "The interpretation is mine, but the step is in the ballet. It's the last gasp of a soul...
...bearded, black-frocked Lubavitchers are followed on their way through their daily life-pausing to pray in a delicatessen, arguing fine points of the Talmud in a yeshiva, gathering for a discourse from their revered leader, Rebbe Menachem Schneerson, in the synagogue. But there are also splendid celebrations. A bris-the ceremony of circumcision-is majestic and moving. And a rollicking, dancing wedding party, the beards flying as the festive crowd reels to Hasidic tunes, may be the best single moment in the entire series...
...town fought back, gathering signatures on a save-the-Chicken petition. Many wives signed, responding to the old argument that morality aside, the house had provided a necessary outlet that protected respectable girls from rape. Flournoy supported the petition drive and even considered a personal appeal to Bris coe. But in the end he did his duty with a telephone call to Edna that ended 130 years of tradition in La Grange...