By YAKOV ZISSER — I was born in Siberia, Russia, in 1957. My parents and grandparents were originally Latvian Jews. As an independent country, Latvia had a small Jewish population where Jews had schools and participated in culture and politics. However the Soviets occupied Latvia in 1940. On the eve of Germany’s invasion of Latvia, in… The post I was a Soviet Jew who chose to get circumcised after making Aliyah to Israel. Now I regret it. appeared first on Beyond the Bris.
