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girls of his congregation re-
ceive Hebrew names in a
baby-naming ceremony, a rite
with "equal significance for
boys and girls."
Rabbi Wine performed such
a ceremony recently at the
home of Steve and Kathy
Kopitz, at which time Brad-
ley David received his grand-
father's Hebrew name.
"(Rabbi Wine) did a little
homily about rebirth, spring,
about the power of children
over adults," Kathy says.
"Bradley's the first child of
the next generation; it was
important to do the tradi-
tion."
She added that Bradley's
great-grandmother had ex-
pected a brit, but the
Kopitzes had their son cir-
cumcised in the hospital in-
stead. Kathy's labor was dif-
ficult, Steve explains. Brad-
ley was born premature. "We
were worried about bleeding."
If so, why have a circumci-
sion at all? The couple say
the option of not having a
circumcision was "out of the
question."
Even if there had been no
complications at the birth,
there would still have been
no brit. "I'm a believer in
modern medicine," Steve de-
clares. "It is not as simple a
surgery as we are led to be-
lieve." -
Kathy, who is not a Jew,
says their son will be bap-
tized a Christian as well.
"Our son will be raised both
ways," Steve adds. "We did a
lot of work on this before we
got married. At some point
the child will have to make
his own decision."
Until that point — which
all children must reach —
the question remains: Who is
responsible for seeing to it
that our next generation is
Jewish?
"The parents are always
responsible for their chil-
dren," Rabbi Zachariash an-
swers. "If your child isn't
vaccinated, whose fault is it?
We provide the clinic, but the
parent must bring the child."
Cantor Greenbaum favors
"some kind of board of rab-
bis" to oversee the brit and
mikveh conversion process.
"There should be some sort of
overseeing body in the com-
munity."
A board of rabbis would be
untenable, Rabbi Zachariash
counters, because it could not
have any coercive powers.
"There is no religious
authority in America," an-
other mohel adds. "Everyone
can do what he pleases.
You're free to be as unreli-
gious as you want."
Even without a board of
rabbis, Cantor Greenbaum
says, there are certain
checkpoints in Jewish life —
entering Hebrew school, bar
mitzvah and marriage, for
example — where a person's
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