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Extreme inheritance

Edit The Jerusalem Post 05 Apr 2016
Although suspected Jewish militant Meir Ettinger was denied leave from prison to be at his son’s brit milah, the celebrations at the event were nonetheless raucous and the mood upbeat ... ....

Circumcision Gone Wrong: 8-Day-Old Baby Boy’s Penis Reattached After Botched Brit Ceremony

Edit The Inquisitr 09 Aug 2015
The publication calls the circumcision a brit, which is also termed the “Brit Milah,” according to Chabad ... The “mohel” — defined as “a Jewish person trained in the practice of brit milah, the covenant of circumcision” — generally possess special skills and training in the delicate practice of performing circumcisions prior to being allowed to conduct such a surgery on an infant....

Why I'm embarrassed by a sect's ban on women drivers

Edit The Daily Telegraph 30 May 2015
Religious dictat should not be allowed to affect a child's education. London has a large Hasidic Jewish community Photo. ALAMY. By Stephen Pollard. 6.40AM BST 30 May 2015. Comments. I’ve only once been told I don’t look Jewish ... I thought it a rather good joke ... We live in a free country ... Occasionally there is a flare-up around shechita – ritual slaughter – or brit milah – circumcision ... Top news galleries....

A New Reality

Edit Huffington Post 19 May 2015
Even within the scope of modern observance, brit milah is not universal ... For parents who wish to forgo brit milah, brit shalom is becoming a popular alternative ... They have gone by various names, including brit b'li milah (covenant without circumcision), brit chayim (covenant of life), and brit ben (covenant for a son) ... There are many more rabbis who offer brit shalom if asked ... It's time for brit shalom families to be openly included....

11 Unique Birthing Traditions Around The World

Edit Huffington Post 30 Apr 2015
The experience of giving birth is both universal and unique all at once ... Below are some of the most intriguing birthing traditions from around the world, brought to you in partnership with Johnson & Johnson and the Global Moms Relay ... Bali ... Japan ... Brit Milah. While circumcision has become commonplace in many Western cultures, the Brit Milah is a Jewish ritual during which baby boys are circumcised and named eight days after they are born ... ....

Circumcision has a long and complicated history

Edit Business Insider 06 Mar 2015
A European circumcision knife dating from 1775-1785. See Also. On a recent Saturday morning, Craig Adams stood outside the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, New Jersey. It was sunny but cold. Adams, who had turned 40 the day before, wore white sneakers and a black T-shirt over a long-sleeve shirt ... *** ... The best-known circumcision ritual, the Jewish ceremony of brit milah, is also thousands of years old ... *** ... *** ... *** ... ....

Circumcision Ritual Infecting Infants With Herpes

Edit The Inquisitr 05 Jan 2015
Circumcision is a common practice among a few religions, but only the ultra-Orthodox Jews engage in this further ritual that exposes the circumcision wound to the unhygenic oral contact ... Since 2000, seventeen infants have been diagnosed with herpes following the circumcision ritual ... Many more Jews are questioning circumcision altogether and are having brit shalom ceremonies in place of the brit milah, where no circumcision takes place....

Judgement and Justice>

Edit Huffington Post 08 Dec 2014
In the last few weeks I have felt the air saturated with violence ... Silence is deadly ... The same God who wiped out the entire cities of Sodom and Gomorrah because there were no righteous people there, has nothing to say about the rape, the massacre, or the use of brit milah (the ritual of circumcision) to render the men of the town incapacitated and unable to fight back ... > ....

Texas Faith: A cup of coffee and other holy rituals

Edit The Dallas Morning News 04 Dec 2014
Rudolph Bush Follow @dallaspolitics Email rbush@dallasnews.com. Published. December 4, 2014 12.15 pm. Every faith has its rituals. Hopefully these help put us in the mind of being with God and make us more present in our prayer. Our lives have their little rituals too ... (This question was inspired by panelist Cynthia Rigby.) ... Be it a baptism or a brit milah, ritual ushers us into both the stories of faith and the stories of our communities ... ....

Exhibition opening "Snip It! Stances on Ritual Circumcision" (...) (Jüdisches Museum Berlin)

Edit noodls 28 Oct 2014
(Source ... Duration. 24 October 2014 - 1 March 2015. • New perspectives ... • Deeper insights ... The ritual removal of the foreskin on the eighth day of life, the "brit milah" (Hebrew ... Born into the tribe through a Jewish mother, his brit milah constitutes an irreversible symbol of his Jewishness ... The objects exhibited address the medical aspects of circumcision and regional differences in the customs associated with the brit milah....

Israel's top court says mother need not have son circumcised

Edit Orlando Sentinel 30 Jun 2014
... her husband's wish to carry out the procedure in a religious rite known in Hebrew as a "brit milah"....

Israel’s top court overturns circumcision ruling

Edit Independent online (SA) 30 Jun 2014
Circumcision is not legally obligatory for Jews in Israel, but a rabbinical court presiding over the woman's divorce case had ruled she must fulfil her husband's wish to carry out the procedure in a religious rite known in Hebrew as a “brit milah” ... The mother then appealed to Israel's highest court ... ....

My Jewish Tattoo Inner/Outer Monologue

Edit Huffington Post 03 Jun 2014
Talking about tattoos and Jews was probably not the smartest topic of conversation to introduce at the Shabbat afternoon meal I was invited to ... I am the Lord" (Leviticus 19.28) ... I talked about pondering the liturgical passage about the "covenant sealed upon our flesh," which refers to the brit milah (circumcision) that Jewish males have on their 8th day of life - and wondered about what marking Jewish women might have ... "Ugh ... ....
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