It is hardly surprising that the vast majority of even the most secular Jews, perhaps up to 98% of Jews in Israel, continue to circumcise their children. It is the first mitzvah given to the first Jew, Abraham, and to this day it continues to be the symbol of our faith and our coven...
See our article on the verb περιτεμνω (peritemno), to circumcise, for a survey on how circumcision created the modern world (and how Schrödinger's cat helped). The Bible is all about the preservation of life, hence the laden term "salvation". This is why the death and ...
As if, at any moment, the lights would blur and go cold, and I’d open my eyes to see a sorrowful little civil servant saying no, there’s been a mistake –did you really think something good might happen in this world? And that moment did come; it just took another two years. T...
Would You Circumcise This Baby? ByMichael Idov An 8-day-old boy, just before his circumcision, on August 11, 2009.Photo: Amy Arbus To cut or not to cut. The choice loomed the moment New Yorkers Rob and Deanna Morea found out, three months into Deanna’s pregnancy, that their first ch...