Brass Bris
by: Schvach Yid

According to a recent article on Ynetnews.com, the wife of Yigal Amir – the murderer of Yitzhak Rabin, may he rest in peace – has just given birth to a son. Mazel tov! The bris is scheduled for the 12^th anniversary (Gregorian) of Rabin’s murder. Some coincidence!

Apparently, prisoners in Israel, and these include incarcerated Arab terrorists, are allowed conjugal visits. Schlecht? But the resulting celebration is a bit too inappropriate, and cruel

I didn’t agree with Rabin’s policies towards the Palestinian Arabs, but Amir should have killed Arafat, not Israel’s Prime Minister; that would have been courageous.

If you’re interested, here’s the link: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3464974,00.html

Here’s a digression. Decades ago, when I worked in a hospital, a group of nurses struck up a discussion about a yalmulka-wearing physician’s assistant who had recently done a bris in the same institution. How they yapped about how ‘he took off the whole thing’. One of them turned to me and in a voice most angry asserted ‘you don’t have to remove the whole thing, okay!’, leading me to realize that brass is provided in various forms.