A young woman with long auburn hair sits surrounded by friends and family in her mother’s living room while holding a tiny baby on a pillow in her lap. She’s the sandek at the brit of her cousin’s son, having agreed to take on this honorary role – the one who holds the baby – to please her father, a Reform rabbi who is the mohel.
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