Terry Gross

Josephson tells us some of his favorite mohel jokes.

Cantor Philip Sherman is a mohel who performs the Jewish rite of circumcision on the eighth day of a baby boys life. In his twenty-two year career hes performed about nine thousand. His grandfather was also a mohel.

The topic is circumcision. Author David Gollaher. He is president and CEO of the public policy group, California Healthcare Institute and is the author of Circumcision: A History of the Worlds Most Controversial Surgery.