4/5 (5) Summary: Jewish scholar Nissan Rubin examines the extensive evidence that ancient Jewish circumcision was modified at a later date to be much more extensive, in an attempt to prevent its reversal. Some of the main arguments are summarized in … Read More
“Indoctrination can harm the child, most notably by effectively closing off the alternatives for the adult the child will become. An individual can choose only among the options of which she is both aware and can consider seriously. If parents limit the … Read More
THE OXFORD DICTIONARY OF THE JEWISH RELIGION EDITORS IN CHIEF R. J. Zwi Werblowsky, Geoffrey Wigoder NEW YORK & OXFORD OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 1997 CIRCUMCISION (Heb. milah), removal of the foreskin in an operation performed on all male Jewish children on … Read More
Excerpt from: Moses Maimonides, The Guide for the Perplexed, translated by Shlomo Pines. (University of Chicago, 1963) Originally written ca. 1190. Part III, Chapter 49, Page 609: Similarly with regard to circumcision, one of the reasons for it is, in my … Read More