Authors offer ceremonies that don't involve circumcision

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'Piedmont resident Lisa Braver Moss is collaborating with Rebecca Wald of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on a book called "Celebrating Brit Shalom," to be published in the spring.

Brit shalom, which means "covenant of peace" in Hebrew, is a naming ceremony for newborn Jewish boys that does not involve circumcision as in the traditional bris milah (covenant of circumcision).

The book offers families who don't want to circumcise their infant sons the choice of three original brit shalom ceremonies that include prayers, readings, new music -- and the cutting of only a pomegranate, a fruit that symbolizes wisdom and righteousness in Judaism.'