Sharon R. Siegel’s forthcoming book, A Jewish Ceremony for Newborn Girls: The Torah’s Covenant Affirmed, will be published by Brandeis University Press in early 2013. Sharon lives with her husband and four children in Teaneck, New Jersey. A more extensive version of this article originally appeared in the Tishrei 5772 (2011) edition of Meorot—A Forum of Modern Orthodox Discourse. Reprinted with permission.
