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Warsaw Commuity
Holds A Brit Milah
Kiev, Ukraine (JTA) —
Members of the small but
revitalized Jewish commun-
ity of Warsaw recently had
an opportunity to attend the
first brit milah to be per-
formed in Poland in over 30
years.
And it wasn't just one brit.
It was 11.
The ritual circumcisions,
which were performed Aug.
31, took place without fan-
fare or notice by the com-
munity at large —which put
the event in striking con-
trast to the last circumcision
performed in Poland.
On that occasion, in 1962,
the mohel was arrested and
interned for several days by
the Polish government for
performing the ceremony.
Rabbi Yitzchok Fischer,
executive director of the
International Bris Milah
Association, was flown in
from Monsey, N.Y., to per-
form the procedure last week
Eleven men, ranging in
ages from 15 to 40, took part
in the ritual.
The International Bris
Milah Association has per-
formed circumcisions on
more than 2,500 male in-
fants in the former Soviet
Union during the past
several years, when restric-
tions were eased.
The organization has also
performed thousands of cir-
cumcisions on emigres to the
United States and Canada,
and is expanding its pro-
gram throughout the world.
During the past several
years, following the collapse
of Communist rule in
Poland, Warsaw's Jewish
community has expanded its
activities.
After more than two
decades during which
Poland did not have a single
rabbi, there are now two
working in Warsaw full
time.
One of them, Rabbi
Michael Schudrich, an
American-born rabbi, runs a
host of activities for younger
Polish Jews under the
auspices of the Ronald S.
Lauder Foundation. The
organization recently held a
summer camp for about 200
people in the southern town
of Rychvald, near the Czech
border.
The camp has become a
regular acvitity of the
Lauder Foundation, which
has been very active in help-
ing the Jews of Eastern
Europe.
Circumcisions, like many
other Jewish religious
rituals, were forbidden or
severely limited under the
Communist regimes of East-
ern Europe.
In the 1920s, shortly after
the Bolshevik revolution,
when anti-religious persecu-
tion was near its highest
point, circumcisions were at-
tacked as "barbaric" rites
and restricted.
When persecution was at
its most extreme, several
mohels and parents were put
on public trial for "maiming
and deforming" children.
After World War II, nearly
all circumcisions in the
Soviet bloc were performed
without the knowledge of
the Communist authorities.
In 1962, one rabbi, Tzvi
Bronstein, traveled to East-
ern Europe and the Soviet
Union to perform clandes-
tine circumcisions.
Though he performed the
ceremony many times in the
Soviet Union without being
discovered by the au-
thorities, he was caught by
the Polish police.
After being questioned ex-
tensively and incarcerated
for a short period, he was
deported from the coun-
try.
Terrorists
Fail In Gaza
Jerusalem (JTA) — Two
separate terrorist attacks
against Israeli targets in the
GazaStrip failed and
resulted in the deaths of two
terrorists.
In one of the incidents, a
Palestinian with explosives
strapped to his body ran into
the courtyard of a police sta-
tion in Gaza City and
detonated the human bomb.
No one other than the
suicide bomber was hurt,
and no damage was re-
ported.
Earlier in the day, Israeli
soldiers shot and killed a Pa-
lestinian who lunged at
them with a knife at an ob-
servation post. One of the
soldiers was slightly wound-
ed in the assault.
Israeli officials have been
on a high state of alert
following promises by Pales-
tinian rejectionists to step
up their attacks in order to
thwart any reconciliation
between Palestinians and
Israelis.
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