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...weeks, I'm going to buy some bagels, call a mohel who is also a pediatric surgeon and believes in local anesthetic, and do something that I'm pretty sure is wrong. I have a horrible feeling that all of parenthood is like this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joel Stein Contemplates Circumcision (For His Son) | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

...Sure, he had been writing scripts with Goldberg after school, and his mom drove him to stand-up gigs at Yuk Yuk's (his retort to hecklers: "I'm 13. In 30 years, I'll be 43. You'll be dead"). He had even been paid by a mohel to write jokes. But ever since he dropped out of high school, Rogen has studied exclusively under Apatow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Education of A Comic Prodigy | 5/17/2007 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, | Title: Special Day for Son of Proctor | 3/1/1991 | See Source »

...orthodox Shaare Zedek Hospital, where Mosaic law is observed so strictly that nurses are forbidden to write on patients' charts on the Sabbath. The sheet-draped patient: Abram Setsuzau Kotsuji, 60, a descendant of Shinto priests. The surgery: circumcision, as part of his conversion to Judaism. As the mohel (circumciser) lifted the knife, he repeated the ancient formula: "Blessed be the Lord our God who has sanctified us and commanded us to circumcise the convert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Japanese Jew | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

...came to court. Agreeing that it takes more than circumcision to make a Jew, Supreme Court Justice Bernard L. Shientag ruled, however, that a child has a right to an inviolate body, ordered that, for its mistake in identity, the hospital should pay the Lymans $300. For his participation Mohel Bukanz was assessed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: $400 for B'rith | 3/9/1936 | See Source »

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