165 posts categorized "Circumcision"

May 6, 2013: Video: Haredi Leader Claims Media Bias, Attacks NYC Mayor
Comments: 23 | Categories: Circumcision , Haredim
At the organization's annual dinner, Rabbi Dovid Zwiebel, the executive VP of Agudath Israel of America, complains that media – and politicians – are biased against haredim. As proof, he cites an unsupported claim made by a right wing evangelical...

May 6, 2013: Don't Let Gentiles Or Average Jews Know We Do Controversial Circumcision Sucking Rite, Chabad Rabbi Says
Comments: 40 | Categories: Chabad , Circumcision , Haredim , Med-Ethics , Religion
“[Metzitzah b'peh, the direct mouth-to-bleeding penis sucking done by many haredi mohels after removing a baby's foreskin] is not an issue that should be discussed in a non-Jewish paper. It’s something to be discussed by rabbis.” The mohel at the...

April 24, 2013: Chief Rabbis' Reversal On Circumcision Sucking Ritual Ban Done To Protect Chabad
Comments: 19 | Categories: Chabad , Circumcision , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Med-Ethics
A Chabad rabbi, Yehuda Teichtal, faces a lawsuit and possible criminal prosecution in Germany for having metzitzah b'peh (MBP), the direct mouth-to-bloody-penis sucking done to babies by mohels after the foreskin has been cut off, done to his infant son...

April 23, 2013: Metzitza B’Peh Is A Part of The Circumcision Procedure And Must Be Done, Israel’s Haredi Chief Rabbis Now Say
Comments: 15 | Categories: Circumcision , Haredim , Media & Media Criticism
A letter was released today by the Director of the Circumcision Department of the Chief Rabbinate Rabbi Moshe Marciano. Marciano wrote that the position of the Chief Rabbinate supports the so-called traditional circumcision procedure that includes MBP which, Marciano wrote,...

April 22, 2013: Chabad Rabbinic Organization Lies To Protect Chabad Emissary From Circumcision Lawsuit
Comments: 25 | Categories: Chabad , Circumcision , Haredim , Med-Ethics
The Rabbinical Centre of Europe – which was founded by and is controlled by Chabad – issued a statement today claiming the circumcision was done properly and that it conformed with German law that requires medical protocols be followed. But...

April 16, 2013: Chief Rabbis Tell Mohels To Use Sterile Tube, Not Mouth, For Metzitzah
Comments: 22 | Categories: Circumcision , Israel , Med-Ethics
Two months after an Israeli study found that 1/3 of all neonatal herpes cases in Israel come from circumcisions done with metzitzah b'peh (MBP), the direct mouth-to-bloody-penis-sucking done by many mohels after removing the baby's foreskin, Israel's haredi chief rabbis...

April 15, 2013: University Of Pennsylvania Issues Statement On Agudath Israel Of America Misrepresentation Of Circumcision Study
Comments: 45 | Categories: Chabad , Circumcision , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Med-Ethics
Penn Med could not be clearer – Agudath Israel of America used an internal Penn Med study without permission, took it out of context and misrepresented what the study found – in other words, the rabbis and gedolim of Agudah...

April 15, 2013: Flawed Penn Haredi Circumcision Study Comes Under Fire As Agudah Court Brief Lies
Comments: 18 | Categories: Chabad , Circumcision , Haredim , MO & Chardal , Religion
The two Penn Med Center for Evidence-based Practice members who did the study cited by haredi umbrella organization Agudath Israel of America in a court filing in support of its claim that there is no valid statistical information to back...

April 12, 2013: Exclusive: Penn Study Cited By Agudath Israel Of America Not Peer Reviewed, Flawed, Authors Did Not Disclose Conflicts Of Interest
Comments: 32 | Categories: Chabad , Circumcision , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Med-Ethics , MO & Chardal
The University of Pennsylvania's Center for Evidence Based Medicine did what is known as a review study of the dangers of metziztah b'peh (MBP), the direct-mouth-to-bloody-penis sucking done by haredi and some Modern Orthodox mohels after cutting off the baby's...

April 10, 2013: Audio: Conservative Radio Host Michael Savage Does Another Show On Dangerous Haredi Circumcision Penis Sucking Ritual
Comments: 70 | Categories: Circumcision , Haredim
And the first caller Savage takes is our favorite haredi spinmeister-apologist, Yossi Gestetner, the defender of all illegal and unseemly things haredi. Related articles Chabad Rabbi-Mohel Threatens To Sue Blogger Over Dangerous Circumcision Sucking Ritual Complete Audio: Conservative Radio Host...

April 9, 2013: Study Questions Danger Of Haredi Circumcision Penis Sucking Ritual
Comments: 34 | Categories: Chabad , Circumcision , Haredim , Med-Ethics
"We have been saying for years that the evidence attacking this religious practice is highly dubious, and now we have world class doctors agreeing with us," said Rabbi Gedaliah Weinberger, chairman emeritus of the board of trustees of Agudath Israel...

April 9, 2013: Complete Audio: Conservative Radio Host Michael Savage Dedicates Show To Controversial Haredi Circumcision Ritual
Comments: 45 | Categories: Chabad , Circumcision , Haredim , Med-Ethics , Media & Media Criticism
Michael Savage, upset by a Fox News headline on metzitzah b'peh (MBP), the direct mouth-to-bleeding-baby-penis sucking done by many haredi (and some Modern Orthodox) mohels after cutting off the baby's foreskin, dedicates more than an hour of his national radio...

April 5, 2013: NYC Metzitzah B'Peh Circumcision Law Toothless
Comments: 23 | Categories: Chabad , Circumcision , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Med-Ethics
"We developed this law…to balance the right of people to practice religion with the requirements of a health agency to protect everybody, especially the most vulnerable. We require their cooperation and it's a challenge." The health department took no action...

April 3, 2013: Another Jewish Baby Gets Herpes From Controversial Haredi Circumcision Ritual
Comments: 23 | Categories: Chabad , Circumcision , Haredim
"In March 2013, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) received a report of a new case of HSV-1 in a newborn male attributable to direct oral suction [metzitzah b'peh]. This is the second such case...

March 30, 2013: Israeli Doctors Find 'Delayed Reaction' Herpes Infection Caused By Dangerous Haredi Cicumcision Rite
Comments: 21 | Categories: Chabad , Circumcision , Haredim , Med-Ethics
Israeli doctors have found a herpes (HSV-1) infection in a 2-and-a-half-year-old boy they believe came from metzitzah b'peh (MBP), the direct mouth-to-bloody-penis sucking done by many mohels (and almost all hasidic mohels) just after cutting off the baby's foreskin and...

March 30, 2013: Video: German Chabad Circumcision Lawsuit
Comments: 33 | Categories: Chabad , Circumcision , Med-Ethics
A Chabad emissary in Germany, Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal, had his son circumcised by an Israeli mohel last week. The mohel did metzitzah b'peh (MBP), the direct mouth-to-bloody-penis sucking done immediately after removing the foreskin. The was videoed with Teichtal's knowledge...

March 18, 2013: Video: NYC Mayoral Candidate Appeases Haredim Over Dangerous Circumcision Ritual
Comments: 46 | Categories: Chabad , Circumcision , Haredim , Med-Ethics
NYC mayoral candidate Bill Thompson is told by a haredi leader that a "red line" issue for the "rank-and-file" haredi man on the street is metzitzah b'peh (MBP), the direct mouth-to-bleeding-penis-sucking done primarily by haredi mohels after cutting off a...

March 14, 2013: 15 Babies Die Every Year In NYC From Metzitzah B'Peh Herpes, Hospitals Cover Up Deaths Leading YU Rabbi Claims
Comments: 51 | Categories: Chabad , Circumcision , Halakha , Haredim , Med-Ethics , MO & Chardal
Speaking at a rabbinical conference in London, England, Rabbi Hershel Schachter, the rosh yeshiva of Yeshiva University's rabbinical school, claims 15 Jewish babies die every year in the New York City area from herpes transmitted by the haredi circumcision direct...

March 5, 2013: Botched Circumcision Leads To Lawsuit, Reconstructive Surgery
Comments: 14 | Categories: Circumcision , Sefardim
Rabbi Mordechai Rachminov allegedly sliced off part of a baby boy’s corona glandis, the circumference of the base of the head of the penis in human males which forms a rounded projecting border, during the boy’s brit milah in the...

February 21, 2013: Federal Court Rejects Haredi Request For Emergency Stay In Circumcision Case
Comments: 19 | Categories: Chabad , Circumcision , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Med-Ethics
Agudath Israel of America, Satmar, the International Bris Association and their fellow plaintiffs appealed last month's denial of their request for a stay of NYC law requiring parents to sign an informed consent document before metzitzah b'peh (MBP), the direct...

February 21, 2013: Chabad Rabbi-Mohel Threatens To Sue Blogger Over Dangerous Circumcision Sucking Ritual
Comments: 46 | Categories: Chabad , Circumcision , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Med-Ethics
"Over the past few months the New York City Mayor Michel Bloomberg (a Jew), has been combating Metzitzah Ba'peh - a very important procedure of the Brit Milah ritual [sic]. A tenet in the Jewish religion. Historically we have found...

February 12, 2013: Circumcision Decreases Sensitivity And Sexual Enjoyment, Study Finds
Comments: 53 | Categories: Circumcision
Perhaps this should be NYC's next informed consent requirement: "This study confirms the importance of the foreskin for penile sensitivity, overall sexual satisfaction, and penile functioning. Furthermore, this study shows that a higher percentage of circumcised men experience discomfort or...

February 9, 2013: Video: Chabad Mohels' Association Angered By 'Anti-Metzitzah-B'Peh-Circumcision' Lottery Ad
Comments: 18 | Categories: Chabad , Circumcision
"It's very unfortunate that people are not taking this matter seriously. The City's meddling in our rituals reminds many of Communist Russia. What's most ironic is that in Russia today Jews are more free to practice this mitzvah than in...

February 7, 2013: Breaking! Israeli Study Finds 7 Cases Of Herpes Transmitted By Ritual Circumcision Sucking Procedure
Comments: 21 | Categories: Circumcision , Haredim , Israel , Med-Ethics , MO & Chardal
In the 8-year study period, 22 cases of nHsV were identified (an incidence rate of 8.4 per 100,000 live births). Most patients (77.2%, 17 cases) manifested as skin, eye and/or mouth infection, 13.6% (3 cases) as localized central nervous system...

January 30, 2013: Mohels Say They Will Not Follow NYC Law On Circumcision Informed Consent
Comments: 32 | Categories: Chabad , Circumcision , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Med-Ethics
“He’s the mayor of the biggest city in the world, but I’m not going to listen to him. I have another mayor, the Almighty, and I will do it his way.” The Forward reports: The leading association for mohelim who...

January 16, 2013: Audio: Agudah Leaders' Conference Call On Metzitzah B'Peh
Comments: 3 | Categories: Chabad , Circumcision , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Media & Media Criticism
Agudah's chief lay person Rabbi Gedaliah Weinberger, attorney Yerachmiel Simins and others on a closed conference call talking about their case against New York City after a federal judge allowed NYC's informed consent requirement to stand until trial. Please click...

January 10, 2013: Judge Denies Haredi Request For Injunction To Ban Metzitzah B'Peh Informed Consent
Comments: 19 | Categories: Chabad , Circumcision , Haredim , Med-Ethics
U.S. District Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald on Thursday refused to issue a preliminary injunction against the change to the city’s health code requiring the informed consent to be signed by parents before a brit milah, circumcision, involving metzitzah b'peh (MBP)....

January 7, 2013: Breaking! Another NYC Baby Gets Herpes From Dangerous Haredi Circumcision Ritual
Comments: 76 | Categories: Chabad , Circumcision , Haredim , Med-Ethics
The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene has sent out an alert to medical providers warning them that another baby now has Herpes Simplex Virus 1 that was transmitted to the baby through metzitzah b'peh, the direct...

December 29, 2012: More Jews In Israel Opt Not To Circumcise Their Sons
Comments: 28 | Categories: Circumcision , Haredim , Israel
"It's the same as if someone would tell me 'it's our culture to cut off a finger when he is born,' People should see it as abuse because it is done to a baby without asking him." More Jews In...

December 28, 2012: The Dangers Of Metzitzah B'Peh That Haredim Tried To Hide
Comments: 30 | Categories: Circumcision , Haredim , Med-Ethics
The haredi journal Dialogue published an issue this month that largely deals with metzitzah b'peh (MBP), the mouth-to-bloody-penis sucking many haredi mohels do. MBP transmits disease, injures, maims and even kills babies. After publishing pro-MBP material, Dialogue was approached and...

December 26, 2012: Agudah Convention To Deal With 'Important' Issues Of The Day: Internet, Heretic Bloggers, Preserving Penis Sucking Ritual
Comments: 19 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Blogs , Circumcision , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Web/Tech
The theme of this year's Agudah convention is, "our responsibilities to one another in times of challenge." But judging from Agudah's convention program, these "responsibilities" apparently do not include responsibilities to sexually abused children, agunot, beaten wives and children, or...

December 19, 2012: Court Hearing Exposes Weakness Of Haredi Circumcision Case
Comments: 15 | Categories: Chabad , Circumcision , Haredim
In arguing that City of New York's requirement to inform parents of the dangers posed to the baby by metzitzah b'peh, the direct mouth-to-bleeding-penis suction done by many haredi mohels, is unconstitutional, haredi groups exposed the weakness of their argument....

December 13, 2012: Germany Legalizes Infant Circumcision – With Restrictions
Comments: 21 | Categories: Circumcision
New German law allowing infant circumcision requires parents be informed of the procedure's risks and mandates anesthetic be used. Both requirements are anathemas to haredim. Germany Legalizes Infant Circumcision – With Restrictions Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com German politicians reportedly passed...

December 13, 2012: Say Psalms To Avert The Evil Decree, Haredi Rabbis Say
Comments: 6 | Categories: Chabad , Circumcision , Haredim
This kol koreh, rabbinic proclamation, is a request for everyone to designate Sunday for saying psalms to avert the "decree" against the haredi community by New York City's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene requiring parents of newborn boys to...

December 3, 2012: 3 Major Medical Organizations Come Out Against Haredi Circumcision Rite
Comments: 20 | Categories: Chabad , Circumcision , Haredim , Med-Ethics
American Academy of Pediatrics, the Infectious Diseases Society of America, and the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society all say metzitzah b'peh, the direct mouth-to-bleeding-penis suction done by haredi mohels is a danger to children, and they argue that an informed consent...

November 28, 2012: In Israel, More Jews Choose Not To Circumcise
Comments: 39 | Categories: Circumcision , Israel
Circumcision is one of Judaism's most important laws and for generations of faithful it has symbolized a Biblical covenant with God. But in Israel, more and more Jewish parents are saying no to the blade.…"It's the same as if someone...

November 17, 2012: Haredi Rabbis Wrong About Circumcision, Rabbi Says
Comments: 31 | Categories: Circumcision , Haredim , Med-Ethics , MO & Chardal
Rabbi Hershel Schachter says that haredi rabbis who insist on "following in the steps of our forefathers" are wrong, because they don't understand what the term "following in the steps of our forefathers" means. Rabbi Hershel Schachter Yeshiva University's rosh...

November 11, 2012: Metzitzah B'Peh Status Quo To Stay In Place For Months Due To Storm
Comments: 25 | Categories: Circumcision , Haredim , Med-Ethics
Superstorm Sandy delayed so many court cases and did so much damage to NYC courts that the hearing that was set for later this week to determine when the city's new informed consent requirement for circumcisions involving metziztah b'peh, direct...

October 26, 2012: Jewish Pols With Haredi Ties Attack Bloomberg Over Penis Sucking Ritual
Comments: 18 | Categories: Chabad , Circumcision , Haredim , Med-Ethics
“I think it’s fair to say that nobody else would take [on metzitzah b’peh]. I mean, come on! Who wants to have 10,000 guys in black hats outside your office, screaming?” NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg, above right; a Chabad mohel...

October 25, 2012: Circumcision Lawsuit Unites Haredi Groups
Comments: 29 | Categories: Circumcision , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Med-Ethics
"The intention of the mayor is to stop metzitzah b'peh in any way he can. Parents are deciding not to go with a mohel [for the bris] because parents think 'mohels kill babies,'" he said. "Painful myths have arisen from...

October 25, 2012: NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg On Metzitzah B'Peh
Comments: 29 | Categories: Circumcision , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Med-Ethics
"I think it's fair to say that nobody else would take that on. I mean, come on! Forget about the fact that -- "They do what!?" -- Who wants to have 10,000 guys in black hats outside your office screaming?"...

October 18, 2012: Agudath Israel Of America Court Filing Makes False Claims
Comments: 26 | Categories: Circumcision , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Med-Ethics
Agudath Israel of America's Memorandum of Law in support of a temporary stay of NYC's requirement for informed consent before a controversial circumcision procedure can be done lies about the history of the procedure and about its safety. Metzitzah b'peh...

October 16, 2012: In Agreement With City, Court Gives One Month Stay Against Circumcision Informed Consent
Comments: 13 | Categories: Circumcision , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Med-Ethics
A senior United States federal judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, has reportedly agreed to a one month stay preventing implementation of the new informed consent requirement for metzitzah b'peh, the direct-mouth-to-bloody-penis...

October 12, 2012: CRC, Agudah, Et Al v. NYC, Et Al
Comments: 18 | Categories: Circumcision , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Med-Ethics
The entire civil complaint that was filed in federal court in Manhattan yesterday by haredi organizations and mohels seeking to stop NYC's requirement that parents sign an informed consent document before allowing their baby to have a circumcision that includes...

October 11, 2012: Haredim Sue City Over Controversial Circumcision Penis Sucking Ritual
Comments: 82 | Categories: Circumcision , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Med-Ethics
Haredim have filed a lawsuit against New York City over the city's newly required informed consent that must be signed by parents before their child can have metzitzah b'peh, the direct mouth-to-bleeding-penis suction (pictured at right) performed by many haredi...

September 28, 2012: Study Indicates That Herpes Frequently Sheds And Can Be Transmitted Even When Mohel Is Shows No Symptoms Of The Virus
Comments: 50 | Categories: Circumcision , Haredim , Med-Ethics
"At least 70% of the population shed HSV-1 asymptomatically at least once a month, and many individuals appear to shed HSV-1 more than six times a month. Shedding HSV-1 is present at many intraoral sites, for brief periods, at copy...

September 27, 2012: Intent To Deceive: Haredi Rabbis Twist The Truth To Skirt US Law And Mislead Their Followers
Comments: 16 | Categories: Circumcision , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Med-Ethics
Claims — advanced primarily by one infectious diseases doctor, Daniel Berman of Westchester Square Medical Center in the Bronx — that the government data are “scant” or “inconclusive,” and that the risks of MbP have not been adequately proved, have...

September 16, 2012: Video: Haredi Rabbi Compares NYC Board of Health To "Judenrat," Nazis
Comments: 52 | Categories: Circumcision , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Med-Ethics
Here is a brief video of Rabbi William Handler, a well-known haredi spokesperson, confusing the basic facts regarding this issue (many of which are clarified above) and accusing Jews who want to cooperate with NYC's decision to require an informed...

September 16, 2012: Circumcision Audio: Dr. Daniel Berman Lies Again
Comments: 13 | Categories: Circumcision , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Med-Ethics , MO & Chardal , Religion
The doctor relied on by most haredi rabbis involved in the controversy over metzitzah b'peh (MBP), the direct mouth-to-bloody-penis sucking done by many haredi mohels after removing the baby's foreskin and the membrane under it, misstates the medical evidence and...

September 15, 2012: Agudah, RCA, And Dishonest Doctor Live Tonight To Discuss Circumcision
Comments: 14 | Categories: Circumcision , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Med-Ethics , MO & Chardal
"IS CIRCUMCISION -BRIS MILAH- UNDER ATTACK?" Dr. Daniel Berman, who is extemely dishonest as the audio tape I posted of him on Friday shows, Rabbi David Zwiebel of Agudath Israel of America and Rabbi Shmuel Goldin of the Rabbinical Council...

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