Comments on: Put Down the Knife! 11 Reasons Not to Circumcise http://ecochildsplay.com/2009/02/23/11-reasons-not-to-circumcise/ Green and Natural Parenting for Eco-Friendly Families Thu, 24 May 2012 17:04:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Tom Tobin http://ecochildsplay.com/2009/02/23/11-reasons-not-to-circumcise/#comment-24046 Tom Tobin Sun, 17 Jul 2011 02:58:26 +0000 http://ecochildsplay.com/?p=3160#comment-24046 How clueless can one human be? Do you really think that uncut penises stink? Out of your 4.7 years of human ancestors, how many do you think were circumcised? Have you heard European women complain? How clueless can one human be?
Do you really think that uncut penises stink? Out of your 4.7 years of human ancestors, how many do you think were circumcised?
Have you heard European women complain?

]]> By: A Jewish Male Opposing Circumcision http://ecochildsplay.com/2009/02/23/11-reasons-not-to-circumcise/#comment-24034 A Jewish Male Opposing Circumcision Fri, 15 Jul 2011 04:27:13 +0000 http://ecochildsplay.com/?p=3160#comment-24034 "This is precisely what happened in England, a nation formerly obsessed with circumcision. In the 1940s, following the release of information that supported leaving male babies fully intact, England's circumcision rate plummeted almost overnight to less than 1 percent. Similar information is beginning to gain ground here in the United States, so I'd like to share it with you." - Christiane Northrup, M.D. "I am confident that my people have such an abundance of life-enhancing, life-affirming and mind-opening traditions, that our identity and sense of cultural self-heed will happily survive our outgrowing of circumcision, a cruel relic which has always felt to me like an aberration at the heart of my religion." - Dr. Jenny Goodman, Challenging Circumcision: A Jewish Perspective "...support can be found from many Jewish sources for the view that circumcision of infants is unethical and should therefore be abandoned...in the final analysis, circumcision is not symbolic for the baby: it is horribly real. Now is the time to lay the knife aside and to move forward into the 21st century with a form of ritual that is truly welcoming and that is truly purely symbolic." - J. Goodman, MA, MBChB, Jewish circumcision: an alternative perspective. BJU Int 1999; 83 Suppl 1:22-27. “This is precisely what happened in England, a nation formerly obsessed with circumcision. In the 1940s, following the release of information that supported leaving male babies fully intact, England’s circumcision rate plummeted almost overnight to less than 1 percent. Similar information is beginning to gain ground here in the United States, so I’d like to share it with you.”
- Christiane Northrup, M.D.

“I am confident that my people have such an abundance of life-enhancing, life-affirming and mind-opening traditions, that our identity and sense of cultural self-heed will happily survive our outgrowing of circumcision, a cruel relic which has always felt to me like an aberration at the heart of my religion.”
- Dr. Jenny Goodman, Challenging Circumcision: A Jewish Perspective

“…support can be found from many Jewish sources for the view that circumcision of infants is unethical and should therefore be abandoned…in the final analysis, circumcision is not symbolic for the baby: it is horribly real. Now is the time to lay the knife aside and to move forward into the 21st century with a form of ritual that is truly welcoming and that is truly purely symbolic.”
- J. Goodman, MA, MBChB, Jewish circumcision: an alternative perspective. BJU Int 1999; 83 Suppl 1:22-27.

]]> By: A Jewish Male Opposing Circumcision http://ecochildsplay.com/2009/02/23/11-reasons-not-to-circumcise/#comment-24031 A Jewish Male Opposing Circumcision Fri, 15 Jul 2011 01:55:01 +0000 http://ecochildsplay.com/?p=3160#comment-24031 "AS AN INCREASING NUMBER OF AMERICANS – including a sizable number of American Jews – question the act of male circumcision, a group of San Francisco activists are advocating to ban circumcision, or what they call male genital mutilation... Many of the leading activists against circumcision around the country are Jewish." - JERUSALEM POST, Challenging the Circumcision Myth, (Israel) 04/10/2011 "BUT CHOOSING TO LEAVE A SON INTACT IS NOT JUST a choice being made by American Jews. Increasingly, Israeli Jews are making this choice. Kahal ( http://www.kahal.org ) was established in June 2000 by parents in the Tel Aviv area who decided not to circumcise their sons. The community is not a formal organization and includes only parents with intact sons. Raquel Lazar-Paley is a parent who chose not to circumcise her son and she says she has several friends in the Haifa area who made the same decision." - THE JERUSALEM REPORT APRIL 25, 2011 "In Israel, opposition to circumcision has happened in just two decades, and now these “rebels” number in the tens of thousands, according to Ronit Tamir, founder of Kahal, a support group for parents who choose not to circumcise their children." - JEWISH WORLD, 3/11/10. "...as recently as the mid-nineteenth century, in Eastern Europe and Russia there was a widespread move to stop the practice... Led by women--what a surprise!--who thought the practice barbaric and patriarchal, the movement eventually even convinced Theodore Herzl, the founder of modern Zionism, who refused to allow his own son to be circumcised." - Michael S. Kimmel, Professor, SUNY Stony Brook TIKKUN, Volume 16, May/June, 2001. "Another American Jew who works against circumcision is Laurie Evans, the director of the New York Hudson Valley chapter of NOCIRC ( http://www.nocirc.org ). “I went to a brit and couldn’t believe I was standing in a room of people who usually question so much, but didn’t think of the baby. It was one of the worst days of my life. I feel our religion is in our heart and soul, not in our genitals.” When Evans’s children were born, she wanted to be more involved Jewishly, despite not being brought up to be practicing. She still maintains some of the Jewish customs, but her difficulty with circumcision has created a fissure between her and Judaism. “It’s hard for me to accept that we don’t accept tattooing and we like questioning, but this can’t be talked about. I see it like foot-binding in China.” - THE JERUSALEM REPORT APRIL 25, 2011 "Coming from a European background... where many Jews reject a brit milla as an archaic and barbaric ritual... This author grew up in France in a traditional Jewish family. Not a single male of her generation or her children's generation within her large family (or in her circle of Jewish friends) was ever circumcised." - Nelly Karsenty, Humanistic Judaism, 1988. “AS AN INCREASING NUMBER OF AMERICANS – including a sizable number of American Jews – question the act of male circumcision, a group of San Francisco activists are advocating to ban circumcision, or what they call male genital mutilation… Many of the leading activists against circumcision around the country are Jewish.”
- JERUSALEM POST, Challenging the Circumcision Myth, (Israel) 04/10/2011

“BUT CHOOSING TO LEAVE A SON INTACT IS NOT JUST a choice being made by American Jews. Increasingly, Israeli Jews are making this choice. Kahal ( http://www.kahal.org ) was established in June 2000 by parents in the Tel Aviv area who decided not to circumcise their sons. The community is not a formal organization and includes only parents with intact sons.
Raquel Lazar-Paley is a parent who chose not to circumcise her son and she says she has several friends in the Haifa area who made the same decision.”
- THE JERUSALEM REPORT APRIL 25, 2011

“In Israel, opposition to circumcision has happened in just two decades, and now these “rebels” number in the tens of thousands, according to Ronit Tamir, founder of Kahal, a support group for parents who choose not to circumcise their children.”
- JEWISH WORLD, 3/11/10.

“…as recently as the mid-nineteenth century, in Eastern Europe and Russia there was a widespread move to stop the practice… Led by women–what a surprise!–who thought the practice barbaric and patriarchal, the movement eventually even convinced Theodore Herzl, the founder of modern Zionism, who refused to allow his own son to be circumcised.”
- Michael S. Kimmel, Professor, SUNY Stony Brook
TIKKUN, Volume 16, May/June, 2001.

“Another American Jew who works against circumcision is Laurie Evans, the director of the New York Hudson Valley chapter of NOCIRC ( http://www.nocirc.org ). “I went to a brit and couldn’t believe I was standing in a room of people who usually question so much, but didn’t think of the baby. It was one of the worst days of my life. I feel our religion is in our heart and soul, not in our genitals.”
When Evans’s children were born, she wanted to be more involved Jewishly, despite not being brought up to be practicing. She still maintains some of the Jewish customs, but her difficulty with circumcision has created a fissure between her and Judaism. “It’s hard for me to accept that we don’t accept tattooing and we like questioning, but this can’t be talked about. I see it like foot-binding in China.”
- THE JERUSALEM REPORT APRIL 25, 2011

“Coming from a European background… where many Jews reject a brit milla as an archaic and barbaric ritual… This author grew up in France in a traditional Jewish family. Not a single male of her generation or her children’s generation within her large family (or in her circle of Jewish friends) was ever circumcised.”
- Nelly Karsenty, Humanistic Judaism, 1988.

]]> By: A Jewish Male Opposing Circumcision http://ecochildsplay.com/2009/02/23/11-reasons-not-to-circumcise/#comment-24015 A Jewish Male Opposing Circumcision Thu, 14 Jul 2011 20:20:00 +0000 http://ecochildsplay.com/?p=3160#comment-24015 To the Mohel Who Cut Me by Shea Levy http://www.beyondthebris.com/2011/06/to-mohel-who-cut-me.html On Circumcision, Authority and the Perpetuation of Abuse by Jonathan Friedman http://www.beyondthebris.com/2011/06/on-circumcision-authority-and.html To the Mohel Who Cut Me by Shea Levy
http://www.beyondthebris.com/2011/06/to-mohel-who-cut-me.html

On Circumcision, Authority and the Perpetuation of Abuse by Jonathan Friedman
http://www.beyondthebris.com/2011/06/on-circumcision-authority-and.html

]]> By: A Jewish Male Opposing Circumcision http://ecochildsplay.com/2009/02/23/11-reasons-not-to-circumcise/#comment-24006 A Jewish Male Opposing Circumcision Thu, 14 Jul 2011 07:43:51 +0000 http://ecochildsplay.com/?p=3160#comment-24006 Many, many Jews are questioning circumcision from many perspectives including religious, ethical, and spiritual as well as men, women, feminists, and parents. A variety of Jewish and Israeli groups are working to abolish circumcision also. Cut: Slicing Through the Myths of Circumcision - A Movie by Eliyahu Ungar-Sargon http://www.cutthefilm.com How "Cut" Saved My Son's Foreskin: A Movie Review By Diane Targovnik http://www.beyondthebris.com/2011/05/how-cut-saved-my-sons-foreskin-movie.html Jewish Circumcision Critics Integral in National Circumcision Debate http://intactnews.org/node/84/1309957856/jewish-circumcision-critics-integral-national-circumcision-debate Jewish Circumcision: An Alternative Perspective by Jenny Goodman, MD. http://www.cirp.org/library/cultural/goodman1999/ On Alternative Rituals by Ronald Goldman, Ph.D. http://www.jewishcircumcision.org/ritual.htm Many, many Jews are questioning circumcision from many perspectives including religious, ethical, and spiritual as well as men, women, feminists, and parents. A variety of Jewish and Israeli groups are working to abolish circumcision also.

Cut: Slicing Through the Myths of Circumcision – A Movie by Eliyahu Ungar-Sargon
http://www.cutthefilm.com

How “Cut” Saved My Son’s Foreskin: A Movie Review By Diane Targovnik
http://www.beyondthebris.com/2011/05/how-cut-saved-my-sons-foreskin-movie.html

Jewish Circumcision Critics Integral in National Circumcision Debate
http://intactnews.org/node/84/1309957856/jewish-circumcision-critics-integral-national-circumcision-debate

Jewish Circumcision: An Alternative Perspective by Jenny Goodman, MD.
http://www.cirp.org/library/cultural/goodman1999/

On Alternative Rituals by Ronald Goldman, Ph.D.
http://www.jewishcircumcision.org/ritual.htm

]]> By: A Jewish Male Opposing Circumcision http://ecochildsplay.com/2009/02/23/11-reasons-not-to-circumcise/#comment-23975 A Jewish Male Opposing Circumcision Wed, 13 Jul 2011 03:43:29 +0000 http://ecochildsplay.com/?p=3160#comment-23975 There is a rapidly growing movement of Jews who are doing skipping circumcision, and moving toward symbolic and ethical ceremonies. Being rational about circumcision and Jewish observance by Moshe Rothenberg, MSW http://www.noharmm.org/rationaljew.htm Cut: Slicing Through the Myths of Circumcision – A Movie by Eliyahu Ungar-Sargon http://www.cutthefilm.com How “Cut” Saved My Son’s Foreskin: A Movie Review By Diane Targovnik http://www.beyondthebris.com/2011/05/how-cut-saved-my-sons-foreskin-movie.html The Kindest Un-Cut Feminism, Judaism, and My Son’s Foreskin by Professor Michael S. Kimmel http://www.cirp.org/pages/cultural/kimmel1/ Brit B’lee Milah (Covenant Without Cutting) Ceremony http://www.nocirc.org/religion/Naming_ceremony.php There is a rapidly growing movement of Jews who are doing skipping circumcision, and moving toward symbolic and ethical ceremonies.

Being rational about circumcision and Jewish observance by Moshe Rothenberg, MSW
http://www.noharmm.org/rationaljew.htm

Cut: Slicing Through the Myths of Circumcision – A Movie by Eliyahu Ungar-Sargon
http://www.cutthefilm.com

How “Cut” Saved My Son’s Foreskin: A Movie Review By Diane Targovnik
http://www.beyondthebris.com/2011/05/how-cut-saved-my-sons-foreskin-movie.html

The Kindest Un-Cut Feminism, Judaism, and My Son’s Foreskin by
Professor Michael S. Kimmel
http://www.cirp.org/pages/cultural/kimmel1/

Brit B’lee Milah (Covenant Without Cutting) Ceremony
http://www.nocirc.org/religion/Naming_ceremony.php

]]> By: A Jewish Male Opposing Circumcision http://ecochildsplay.com/2009/02/23/11-reasons-not-to-circumcise/#comment-23973 A Jewish Male Opposing Circumcision Tue, 12 Jul 2011 23:55:07 +0000 http://ecochildsplay.com/?p=3160#comment-23973 There is even a spiritual and religious movement in Judaism to do a symbolic ceremony instead of a surgical circumcision. Circumcision: A Jewish Feminist Perspective by Miriam Pollack http://www.noharmm.org/pollack.htm One Rabbis’ Thoughts on Circumcision by Rabbi Nathan Segal http://www.rabbinathan.com/writings/circum.shtml Brit Shalom Celebrants by Mark D. Reiss, M.D. http://www.circumstitions.com/Jewish-shalom.html Brit B’lee Milah (Covenant Without Cutting) Ceremony http://www.nocirc.org/religion/Naming_ceremony.php A Case for Bris without Milah. http://www.circumstitions.com/Jewish.html There is even a spiritual and religious movement in Judaism to do a symbolic ceremony instead of a surgical circumcision.

Circumcision: A Jewish Feminist Perspective by Miriam Pollack
http://www.noharmm.org/pollack.htm

One Rabbis’ Thoughts on Circumcision by Rabbi Nathan Segal
http://www.rabbinathan.com/writings/circum.shtml

Brit Shalom Celebrants by Mark D. Reiss, M.D.
http://www.circumstitions.com/Jewish-shalom.html

Brit B’lee Milah (Covenant Without Cutting) Ceremony
http://www.nocirc.org/religion/Naming_ceremony.php

A Case for Bris without Milah.
http://www.circumstitions.com/Jewish.html

]]> By: Tony http://ecochildsplay.com/2009/02/23/11-reasons-not-to-circumcise/#comment-23580 Tony Mon, 06 Jun 2011 18:43:57 +0000 http://ecochildsplay.com/?p=3160#comment-23580 You make me so angry ! I can tell that you must be circumcised or your husband is! Any part of the body can be washed with soap and water every day . You will have no more risk for HPV/ HIV any more with foreskin or with out . You can kiss some one and catch HPV also oral sex . I can tell you have no idea and have never seen or understand how a foreskin works . even a female vagina needs to be kept clean at all times , Yes that means washing everyday . Thousands of men live an entire life with foreskin and never have any pr0blem . It is natural if we are not suppose to have it then we would not be born with it . You make me so angry ! I can tell that you must be circumcised or your husband is! Any part of the body can be washed with soap and water every day . You will have no more risk for HPV/ HIV any more with foreskin or with out . You can kiss some one and catch HPV also oral sex . I can tell you have no idea and have never seen or understand how a foreskin works . even a female vagina needs to be kept clean at all times , Yes that means washing everyday . Thousands of men live an entire life with foreskin and never have any pr0blem . It is natural if we are not suppose to have it then we would not be born with it .

]]> By: hey http://ecochildsplay.com/2009/02/23/11-reasons-not-to-circumcise/#comment-23569 hey Sun, 05 Jun 2011 15:38:08 +0000 http://ecochildsplay.com/?p=3160#comment-23569 uncut weeners stink and are gross! eeeew uncut weeners stink and are gross! eeeew

]]> By: fitzgerald hanover http://ecochildsplay.com/2009/02/23/11-reasons-not-to-circumcise/#comment-21717 fitzgerald hanover Wed, 19 Jan 2011 21:17:46 +0000 http://ecochildsplay.com/?p=3160#comment-21717 In order to accomplish sexual intercourse, what has to b e done? Does the foreskin have to be rolled back? In order to accomplish sexual intercourse, what has to b e done? Does the foreskin have to be rolled back?

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