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Aguilera adds unusual touch to circumcision ritual

By Daniel Sieradski · February 6, 2008

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Christina Aguilera insisted on turning her baby son's bris into a big celebration and decorated her home with penis balloons.

Aguilera, a Catholic, has adopted all the customs and holidays of her husband Jordan Bratman's religion, and admits she now knows how to celebrate the rite of male circumcision.

The pop star refused to allow the sacred ceremony to become a somber affair and turned the bris into a big party.

She says, "I'm not Jewish, my husband's Jewish ... I never really knew a lot of Jewish people growing up either, so I really had no idea about the bris and all the Jewish holidays. It's all a learning process for me.

"It was a very sweet experience; we had a lot of close friends come over and experience the bris with us.

"We're such a non-conventional couple, we had a lot of penis balloons everywhere."

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Lou Dobbs calls ADL “a joke”

By Daniel Sieradski · February 6, 2008

In the midst of an on-air debate Monday night with Janet Murguia, an immigrants' rights activist from the National Council of La Raza (which recently launched a campaign to combat hate speech against immigrants), CNN's Lou Dobbs called the Anti-Defamation League "a joke" and an "absolute advocate group for open borders and amnesty for illegal aliens."

The ADL, which was cited by Murguia as "an outstanding organization," has previously chided Dobbs for "spread[ing] false propaganda about how immigrants are harming the United States."

The ADL has yet to comment on Dobbs' remarks.

Video here. Transcript here.

(Hat tip to Greg Siskind.)

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