When Allison Finch, a 36-year-old mother of five from Houston, had her first son, in 2007, she had him circumcised before taking him home. But the circumcision was cosmetically uneven, a result that left her regretting the choice to have the procedure done in the hospital. â??We werenâ??t overly impressed, but we didnâ??t know that there was another way,â? she says.
So when their second son, Henry, was born in 2011, she and her husband Robert went a different route. Although they identify as practicing Christians, the Finches decided to have their baby circumcised by a mohel, a Jewish person trained to perform a ritual circumcision, or brit milah (Hebrew for â??the covenant of circumcisionâ?). In keeping with Jewish tradition, the family asked the mohel to circumcise Henry on the eighth day of his life.
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