Also on previous article on FR: Newborn dies after reportedly contracting herpes from controversial circumcision ritual
UUGGHHH!
Very sad. But two babies in ten years? How many babies die in childbirth in a large city over the course of ten years? I would imagine more than two.
If this particular rabbi has a herpes infection, then presumably he should stop doing this. But even there, I’d be curious how many successful circumcisions he performed over the course of ten years.
The whole “traditional” ritual seems a bit unseemly to me, herpes or not. Somehow, I have a real hard time believing that Abraham was putting his mouth on people’s penises.
Why does the media continue to blast this out, when it only happened twice and the last time years ago? Meanwhile they NEVER cover the totally routine practice of female genital mutilation by Muslims worldwide - hundreds of thousands of victims every single year!
Far more babies are probably killed by Gentile, neo-Nazi homosexuals than by circumcision accidents.
Drawing blood is necessary, using ones mouth is not. This process places a child at risk. Most ultra-orthodox Jews do not do this. Some will not live in the real world and are so stuck on tradition, that they ignore the law.
Is this really a Jewish ritual? I've never heard of it, i thought circumcision was just remove the foreskin