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Der Roman handelt von einem jüdischen Mann, der gegen Beschneidung ankämpft und hierbei gerade noch stärker seine jüdische Identität für sich entdeckt.
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Der Roman handelt von einem jüdischen Mann, der gegen Beschneidung ankämpft und hierbei gerade noch stärker seine jüdische Identität für sich entdeckt.
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Lisa Braver Moss's The Measure of His Grief has special meaning for me. Twenty-four years ago, I and my husband were Conservative Jewish parents who chose not to circumcise their son. This was an excruciatingly painful decision to make because Judaism is important to us, yet I had reason to believe that circumcision runs counter to our injunction not to harm any living thing. I used to teach in Hebrew day schools in Montreal. The baby brother of one of my Israeli colleague's died after his bris when he acquired an infection and subsequent fulminating septicemia. The brother of another acquaintance had been institutionalized his whole life for the same reason: he didn't die, but was left brain-damaged. I realized that a circumcision was not equivalent to "cutting fingernails" as my parents and so many Jews had told me. It is surgery, and potentially dangerous. I prayed not to have a boy so I wouldn't have to become a heretic.
In Ms. Braver Moss's novel, a physician, Sandor Waldman, begins to question his own circumcision when he experiences genital pain after his father's death. Throughout, this page-turner of a novel, Dr. Waldman begins to challenge circumcision with accurate information and data, against the unscientific assumptions and bromides of circumcision's supporters. Lisa Braver Moss achieved writing a book that can change minds while being exciting and not didactic. In the end, Dr. Waldman becomes more immersed in Judaism than before he questioned circumcision. Lisa Braver Moss has created a vehicle that will allow Jews to discuss circumcision sanely, clearly, and hopefully without rancor.
As for my son...he identifies as Jewish more than many young Jewish men his age. He's been and continues to be involved in Hillel, has been a volunteer with the army in Israel, worked for a Jewish organization. studied Hebrew at college, been bar mitzvahed, goes to Torah study on Saturdays, is an advocate for Israel through Hasbara training. The dire prediction was that, left intact, he would not identify as a Jew. The opposite is true. Somewhat as it was for Dr. Sandor Waldman.