Article Discussion: Welcoming Babies into Intermarried Families Choosing Ceremonies

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[Unregistered]

What happens if the baby parents decide to have both ceremonies, circumcision and baptistm. How should we feel about that.

[Phx Mom]

People will feel about it the way they feel.  There is no right or wrong way. 
By "a circumcision," do you mean a bris or just a circumcision in the hospital after the birth?
Personally, I feel having both ceremonies makes no sense. 
A bris welcomes the child into the Covenant of Abraham and marks him as a Jew.
A baptism joins him to Jesus and marks him as a Christian. 
You cannot be both.

[Unregistered]

I think "bris" is not the Yiddish term for "brit," it is simply the Ashkenazic pronunciation.  Like shabbos and shabbat.

[Benjamin Maron]

I think "bris" is not the Yiddish term for "brit," it is simply the Ashkenazic pronunciation.

Bris is both - the Ashkenazic pronunciation of the Hebrew word for circumcision ("brit") and the Yiddish word for circumcision.