The Guardian, Tuesday 15 October 2013 16.00 EDT “[Tanya Gold] is quite wrong to say all Jews agree on circumcision. Many secular Jews take pride in where we come from, but also have the confidence to explore an identity…
What is a Jewish Brit Shalom (Covenant Without Cutting)?
A ‘Bloodless Bris’ is Becoming Popular Among American Jews ARTICLE | AUGUST 13, 2013 – 9:37AM At this Bris Shalom, the parents washed their son’s feet (Brit Rechitzah) as a symbolic sign of Jewish covenant and welcoming, rather than circumcising him.…
Intactivism Spreads in Israel. This Time by Jews.
Intactivist Media Initiative Comes to the Holy Land Article | July 15, 2013 – 6:30pm Eran Sadeh holds up a photo of a Jewish circumcisionat a human rights panel in Germany addressing circumcision as a human rights violation. Here is…
A Jew Against Circumcision
Jul 31, 2013 A Jew Against Circumcision By Scott Raab at 1:30PM I’m not a circumcision fan, not as a Jew, not as a man. I belong to a branch of Judaism — Reconstructionist — that considers itself enlightened and…
Jewish Intactivism – A Male Human Rights Movement!
Jewish Intactivism – A Male Human Rights Movement!”All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.” – Arthur Schopenhauer Kahal Feel free to share!
“It’s a boy”
““It’s a boy,” my husband said quietly as he lifted the baby onto my chest. I didn’t believe him. I sobbed with joy at the tiny baby in my arms who looked up at me curiously and didn’t cry. We…
Gonnen, an Israeli Intactivist group, has produced stickers and postcards in Hebrew
http://www.gonnen.org 1. (card, front) A WORD ON BRIT [a double entendre in Hebrew] CIRCUMCISION SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCES THE SENSITIVITY OF THE PENIS. On normal skin the size of the foreskin there are 50 nerve endings. In the foreskin,…
Can you give me back my foreskin?
Open letter to Bent Lexner, Chief Rabbi of Denmark By Leo Milgrom (Milgroms translation of his original piece published in Danish daily Politiken ‘Kan du give mig min forhud tilbage?‘ 07/28/2012 and first covered by this blog here.) March 1980: a…
Humanistic Judaism Increasingly Critical of Child Circumcision
“The Humanistic Jewish movement is a quickly growing denomination in Judaism and the furthest from practicing circumcision. The movement contains over 30,000 members and has over 50 active synagogues in the United States and Israel. There are a variety of…
New Article Finds Fault With Pediatric Organization’s Support for Circumcision, Provoking a Formal Response
Human rights attorney J. Steven Svoboda and pediatrician Robert S. Van Howe, M.D. have published a new article in one of the world’s leading journals on medical ethics arguing that the American Academy of Pediatrics’ (AAP’s) position regarding male circumcision…