Observing Jewish Rituals

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“Well my parents were Orthodox Jews. They were very observant. My mother lit candles every Friday night. Holidays were observed. When I was born it was against the law to have Jewish ceremonies, so my father smuggled in the mohel, the one who does the ritual circumcision, into our apartment. He had his tools inside his coat pocket, sterilized them in our apartment, and on the eighth day of my life I was circumcised in secret in our own apartment. That was the way things were done then. It was against the law to have Jewish celebrations, any kind of Jewish observances.”