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• Interview With A Mohel

  I'm not Jewish and don’t live in a heavily Jewish area (although the front door to my house has a mezzuzah on it, since I believe my neighborhood was a more Jewish area back in the day). I have never attended a bris, although I did go to the baby naming for a friend's daughter, and we didn’t circumcise our little dude. So I found this interview with a mohel (the Jewish official who performs the bris, or ritual circumcision, of Jewish babies) really interesting.   Read More... Posted Jun 10 2008, 12:02 PM by AmyinMotown with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: religion, circumcision, judaism, rituals, mohel, prayers, baby naming

• Cuts Through Corrugated Cardboard and Foreskin

  Whether you call it felony child abuse, a gross misinterpretation of the Hebrew Covenant of Circumcision or a father’s foreword thinking to reduce his son’s risk of contracting the HIV virus by 50% while increasing his need for a tetanus shot by 100%, a North Carolina Man has been accused of circumcising his sons with a utility knife. Read More... Posted Feb 06 2008, 05:00 PM by makeitadouble with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: circumcision, child abuse, child neglect, mohel, foreskin, box cutter