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Covenants without Circumcision in the Jewish Reform Movement

Many Reform Jewish Rabbis are Adopting Symbolic Covenant Rituals.

(TEL AVIV) - Many Rabbis are welcoming intact males into the Jewish community, and a growing number of Rabbis feel that surgical circumcision is no longer appropriate in the 21st century.

In Europe, 200 years ago, influential Rabbis in the early Reform movement of Judaism began writing in private correspondences that Jews should abolish circumcision surgery.

Jewish Men Discuss Circumcision. What do we really think?

Reform Judaism: more and more Jews are questioning traditional circumcision.

(TEL AVIV) - The practice of circumcision is something I've been aware of from a very young age. I grew up in Brooklyn, New York, and my family is Orthodox...

Whether it's the Victorian-era doctors, bent on perpetuating their own sexual repression, or during the Maccabean Period where the Jewish priestly ruling class instituted the more severe form of brit milah that is practiced today...

The Jewish Anti-Circumcision and Intactivist Movement

The body is a delicate biological eco-system, and damaging or removing any part has an effect on the whole.

(TEL AVIV) - Today's Judaism is ready to reject traditional circumcision and to move to compassionate symbolic rituals.

The interpretation of Jewish law is constantly in a state of development, flux, and evolution, expanding as the realm of human rights expands.

Poll: 45 Percent Would Ban Shechitah in Britain

Among 18-24 year-olds, 41 percent would ban both nonmedical circumcision in underage boys and ritual slaughter of animals for food.

(LONDON JTA) - About 45 percent of 1,900 Britons polled favored banning Jewish ritual slaughter and 38 percent said they favored banning nonmedical circumcision.

In the poll, which was conducted last week by the YouGov polling agency for The Jewish Chronicle of London, 45 percent of respondents backed banning ritual slaughter, known as shechitah.

Cultural Bias in the AAP`s 2012 Technical Report and Policy Statement on Male Circumcision

In this commentary, a different view is presented by non–US-based physicians and representatives...

(WASHINGTON DC) - The American Academy of Pediatrics recently released its new Technical Report and Policy Statement on male circumcision.

The report concludes that current evidence indicates that the health benefits of newborn male circumcision outweigh the risks.

Circumcision, the Greatest Crime Against Humanity, Racist and Catalyzer of Fanaticism, Terrorism, Genocide and Feminicide

"Every man who has chosen lie as an instrument must inexorably choose violence as a rule." Alexander Soljenitsyne

(PARIS) - In a minority (20% of humanity), some cultures destroy the specific organs of autosexuality (the foreskin, and sometimes the clitoris).

In a majority, the other cultures respect human anatomy. The use of the same term to designate both mutilations shows that circumcision is responsible for excision.

Circumcision and the Twofold Emotional Pathway Arising from the Cycle of Betrayal

I always had an internal battle because of my humiliation and injustice. ~ I wanted it to work like other men’s worked. Andrei Chikatilo.[1]

(MONTEREY, CA) - The majority of known serial killers live in America. This is abstract statistical evidence.

World law enforcement realizes the vast majority of countries do not document as well because of inability. Politics may hinder. Once in Russia serial killing was considered a decadent Western phenomenon.

Circumcision: Sexual Predation, Child Molestation and Typologies

Predators prey on the weak. Child molesters and serial killers share a same personality type. Edward Mazza.[1]

(MONTEREY, CA) - Circumcision is where sex and violence meets.

Both sexes are victimized. Circumcision reduces the humanity of the victim to his or her genitals – a genitalization of the body.

Circumcision: Cycle of Betrayal, Signature`s Desire and Dismissive Cognition

Routine neonatal circumcision began in this country in the 1870’s and was practiced on both boys and girls for the ensuing two decades. - Schwartz, et al.[1]

(MONTEREY, CA) - The psychological indicators of serial sexual predation are the same as those in the religious ritual of circumcision.

The timeline between social initiation of circumcision and subsequent development of serial killing as we know it today illustrates connection.

Circumcision: Trauma, Child Maltreatment, Modality and Socialized Stalking

There are only three sins – causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish.  The rest is window dressing. - Roger Caras

(MONTEREY, CA) - When a victim or spectator cannot question, prevent or stop child abuse, the result is learned helplessness.

Children cannot protect themselves from adults and powerful social forces.