With global media attention focused on the anti-government demonstrations in Egypt, another series of demonstrations, even more significant, have gone unnoticed.

These demonstrations also number over a million people, and not just in one country but all over the world. And they threaten to change the world order no less, perhaps even more so, than the events in Egypt.

by Rabbi Yisrael Rutman Brit Milah (circumcision) is as ancient as Judaism itself. There are only three commandments that derive from the Book of Genesis, and brit milah is one of them (the others are “to be fruitful and multiply,” and the prohibition against eating the gid hanashe, the sinew of the thigh). Its first
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