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365 days after October 7, hostages are still captive in Gaza

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2024/10/07
16:24 UTC

This tiny, barely-active subreddit was just threatened by the admins...

So we received this wonderful threat from the admins yesterday:

Hi everyone,

We are aware that you have chosen to close your community at this time. Mods have a right to take a break from moderating, or decide that you don’t want to be a mod anymore. But active communities are relied upon by thousands or even millions of users, and we have a duty to keep these spaces active.

Subreddits belong to the community of users who come to them for support and conversation. Moderators are stewards of these spaces and in a position of trust. Redditors rely on these spaces for information, support, entertainment, and connection.

Our goal here is to ensure that existing mod teams establish a path forward to make sure your subreddit is available for the community that has made its home here. If you are willing to reopen and maintain the community, please take steps to begin that process. Many communities have chosen to go restricted for a period of time before becoming fully open, to avoid a flood of traffic.

If this community remains private, we will reach out soon with information on what next steps will take place.

I would love to know how many Jewish intactivists reddit has at their disposal to moderate a group like this. Or maybe they're willing to look the other way and commit to the erasure of Jewish/GM victims as long as they can continue their power trip.

Hey Reddit: admit you lied and dragged a private citizen's name through the mud. Until then, fuck you.

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2023/06/22
17:28 UTC

This sub will be going dark on June 12th.

The appalling AMA with the CEO made it very clear how reddit treats people who support this website. As the only mod here who has been active in the past year, I'm making an executive decision to go dark in protest of reddit's proposed changes, and even moreso, their repugnant malicious behavior toward a private individual.

Long-term, we'll see what happens to this sub. There are precious few resources online for Jews against infant circumcision, but that will be a decision for another day. This sub will go dark on June 12th, monitor the situation, and proceed as seems reasonable.

If for some reason, you're reading this and you have no idea what's going on:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ModCoord/comments/13xh1e7/an_open_letter_on_the_state_of_affairs_regarding/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Save3rdPartyApps/comments/13yh0jf/dont_let_reddit_kill_3rd_party_apps/

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2023/06/11
03:54 UTC

Need advice: talking to a Jewish couple who is trying for a baby

This weekend I will be catching up with an old friend and her husband.

Both are Jewish (as am I).

They’ve recently married, and hinted that they’re trying for a baby.

I want to have “the Circumcision talk” with them, and I would appreciate any advice that my fellow anti-circumcision Jews can offer.

You’d have my deepest gratitude!

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2022/10/29
04:37 UTC

A statement of purpose, for Jews opposing circumcision.

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2022/10/28
01:11 UTC

Unpacking the claim that circ is benign & FGM is to control sexuality. He touches on the reasoning of Circ in the Jewish community, at 1:15 he talks about Maimonides & how they knew back then how harmful it was.

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2022/07/26
23:50 UTC

Left-Tube is silent on MGM.

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2022/06/13
02:16 UTC

Bringing Out Circumcision Trauma.

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2022/05/28
19:00 UTC

No Reason for Circumcision. Song written by DA GREAT, an intactivist in Africa!

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2022/05/08
18:24 UTC

NLI Helped BSM Vastly Increase Published Articles 25 so far and counting

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2022/03/10
20:31 UTC

Please Report This Channel to YouTube

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2022/03/07
14:48 UTC

Thought You Guys Would Appreciate This

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2022/03/07
00:40 UTC

Help Fund NLI's Essential Email Marketing System

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2022/02/16
03:54 UTC

Are there Jews that want to revert to Milah from Periah?

Hi all,

I'm sorry in advance if this is the wrong group to post this, however I don't know any group that would be more suited.

(Disclaimer: Uncircumcised gentile male here. I am against RIC (nonreligious), and Periah, and any ritual circumcision involving minors, especially when they are based on deceit such as as Tuli in the Philippines and South Korean circumcision, which although performed on teenagers generally, seems to be an American import. I'm also an Evangelical Christian who puts a heavy weight on the Bible.)

I'm trying to find further information on Brit Milah vs Brit Periah, when it changed etc. (even if it occurred, I have heard of some denying it). I also would like to know if there are 'reformist' Jews (I'm not sure if that word is correct in this context). I'd like to know for my own private research / curiosity on the issue (personally I believe in religious reform and true religion, and not adapting the religion to suit tradition etc., either way (liberal or fundamental). Please note I'm not trying to join any such groups or movements, or adopt or promote any stances in relation to Milah, just wanting to find more information on the issue.

Thanks in advance.

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2022/01/27
00:11 UTC

The sad truth about male Circumcision

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2022/01/18
01:17 UTC

Alon Sivroni

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2021/10/02
00:11 UTC

This has been making me feel like shit all day.

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2021/09/26
01:16 UTC

Maimonides: The real purpose of circumcision is to cause pain and blunt sexual pleasure

It has been thought that circumcision perfects what is defective congenitally. This gave the possibility to everyone to raise an objection and to say: How can natural things be defective so that they need to be perfected from outside, all the more because we know how useful the foreskin is for that member? In fact this commandment has not been prescribed with a view to perfecting what is defective congenitally, but to perfecting what is defective morally. The bodily pain caused to that member is the real purpose of circumcision. None of the activities necessary for the preservation of the individual is harmed thereby, nor is procreation rendered impossible, but violent concupiscence and lust that goes beyond what is needed are diminished. The fact that circumcision weakens the faculty of sexual excitement and sometimes perhaps diminishes the pleasure is indubitable. For if at birth this member has been made to bleed and has had its covering taken away from it, it must indubitably be weakened. The Sages, may their memory be blessed, have explicitly stated: It is hard for a woman with whom an uncircumcised man has had sexual intercourse to separate from him. In my opinion this is the strongest of the reasons for circumcision.
— Moses Maimonides, The Guide for the Perplexed, M. Friedlânder translation (1904), Part III, Chapter 49, p. 609, 1190.

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2021/08/06
12:37 UTC

From King David through Zedekiah, none of the kings of Israel and Judah, were circumcised. None of the prophets, from Amos and Hosea to Jeremiah and Ezekiel, were either.

during the period of the Jewish commonwealth and most of the Persian period, residents of the kingdoms of Israel and Judah didn't circumcise their sons. All the kings of Israel and Judah, from King David through Zedekiah, were uncircumcised. The prophets, from Amos and Hosea to Jeremiah and Ezekiel, were also uncircumcised.
— Yigal Ben-Nun, It's Time to Give Up Circumcision, Haaretz, 4 Oct 2017

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2021/08/06
12:31 UTC

1/20 Jewish parents of newborn boys in Israel didn't have them circumcised, another 1/4 would rather not have to do it (2006)

An informal online survey conducted in 2006 by the Israeli parenting portal Mamy found that of 1,418 parents of boys, 4.8 percent did not have them circumcised. The reasons given: 1.6 percent were not Jews; 2 percent objected to disfiguring the body; and 1.2 percent refrained because the act is painful.
The survey also found that nearly a third of the parents would prefer to forgo circumcision but nevertheless have it done for social reasons (16.6 percent), health reasons (10.4 percent) and because it is important for the grandparents (2.1 percent).
— Netta Ahituv, Even in Israel, More and More Parents Choose Not to Circumcise Their Sons, Haaretz, 2012.

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2021/08/06
12:24 UTC

Jews Against Milah, the list

Rabbi Raymond Singer, PhD
Neuropsychology, Washington State University

Rabbi Nardi Green
Jerusalem, Israel
https://www.brimila.com/rebbe-nardi-grin

Rabbi Yishai Ron
Haifa, Israel
https://www.brimila.com/rabbi-brit-shalom

Rabbi Binyamin Biber

Rabbi Adam Chalom
Kol Hadash Humanistic Congregation, Chicago, IL, US
Dean, Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism
Little-known non-cutting ritual appeals to some who oppose circumcision, 2011

Rabbi Yeshaia Charles Familant
Menlo Park, CA, USA
Little-known non-cutting ritual appeals to some who oppose circumcision, 2011

Rabbi Natan Segal
Shabbos Shul
http://www.rabbinathan.com/writings/circum.shtml

Rabbi Judith Seid Tri-Valley Cultural Jews, Pleasanton, CA, USA
Little-known non-cutting ritual appeals to some who oppose circumcision, 2011

Rabbi Peter Schweitzer
Schweitzer does alternative ceremonies for people who choose not to circumcise. (NYT, Haaretz)

Hershl Hartman
Vegvayzer, Sholem Community, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Little-known non-cutting ritual appeals to some who oppose circumcision, 2011

Rabbi Sherwin Wine
Founder, Society for Humanistic Judaism
Little-known non-cutting ritual appeals to some who oppose circumcision, 2011

Dr. Dean Edell, MD
Medical Commentator, USA
https://youtu.be/bk8bfpCADcA
https://youtu.be/lBx6Q4c9EGA
https://youtu.be/GvfK0unRFYw

Dr. Mark Reiss, MD
Radiology, Yeshiva University
https://youtu.be/Q_ued_SeqdA
https://youtu.be/XWq5PQsNhRw
https://youtu.be/ruJ62wHpHuw

Prof. Paul M. Fleiss, MD
Paediatrics, University of Southern California
http://www.mothersagainstcirc.org/fleiss.html

Prof. Eran Elhaik, PhD
Genetics, University of Sheffield
http://archive.fo/WAjIw

Prof. Vadim Cherny, PhD
Linguistics,
How Judaic is circumcision?

Prof. Avshalom Zoossmann-Diskin, PhD
Genetics, Tel Aviv University
Relation of male circumcision to cervical cancer, sexuality and female circumcision, Journal of Men's Health & Gender, 2007

Prof. Walter E. Block, PhD Economist, USA
Libertarianism and Circumcision, 2014

Dr. Moisés Tractenberg, MD
Psychoanalysis of Circumcision, 1977

Dr. Robert S. Mendelsohn, MD
Paediatrician, USA
How to Raise a Healthy Child… In Spite of Your Doctor, 1984

Dr. Richard Lieberman, MD

Prof. Leonard Glick, MD, PhD
Professor of Anthropology, Historian
Marked in Your Flesh: Circumcision from Ancient Judea to Modern America, 2005 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4UEbsg-k5Y

Dr. Ron Goldman, PhD
Psychologist, USA
Circumcision, The Hidden Trauma, 1997
Questioning Circumcision: A Jewish Perspective, 2015
The Growing Jewish Circumcision Debate, 2004
https://www.arclaw.org/wp-content/uploads/Goldman-Growing-Jewish-Circ-Debate-2004.pdf https://youtu.be/Ec92eRrnWdY
http://youtu.be/FjPPOfEvPOM
http://www.cirp.org/library/psych/goldman1/

Dr. Richard Schwartzman, DO
Psychiatrist, Temple University
The Emotional Consequences of Circumcision
https://youtu.be/117vEwBtEY4

Dr. Tina Kimmel, PhD
Director, NOCIRC
https://youtu.be/aqgCeAFkHIM
https://youtu.be/AuE0BchVyCA
https://youtu.be/RzDlUGRAZnQ

Dr. Jennifer Margulis, PhD Author, The Business of Baby, 2013
http://www.beyondthebris.com/2013/06/our-covenant-is-with-our-son-my-familys.html
http://youtu.be/zTCh--Ih6T8

Prof. Hanoch Ben-Yami, PhD
Philosophy, Tel-Aviv University
"Even if there are elements of Judaism of which we should be proud, circumcision is certainly not among them." http://www.azure.org.il/article.php?id=464 https://www.tau.ac.il/humanities/philosophy/segel/hanoch2-britmila-eng.html

Dr. Jenny Goodman, MD
Environmental Medicine, London, UK

Dr. David L. Gollaher, PhD
President & CEO, California Healthcare Institute (CHI), 1993–2014
"If routine medical circumcision didn't exist today, no one would dare to invent it. Yet it does ex-ist. And owing to a long and curious history, it is so deeply embedded in cer-tain cultures and worldviews that it is hard to recognize for what it is."
Circumcision: A History Of The World's Most Controversial Surgery, 2000
From Ritual to Science: The Medical Transformation of Circumcision in America, Journal of Social History, 1994

Norm Cohen
Director, NOCIRC, Michigan, USA

Howard Stern
Talk Radio Host, Los Angeles, CA, USA
https://youtu.be/4FEZl6WD9mM

Rebecca Wald, JD
Author, USA
Beyond the Bris

Eliyahu Ungar-Sargon
Filmmaker, Chicago, IL, USA
Cut: Slicing Through the Myths of Circumcision
http://youtu.be/13mvKdv65BQ
https://forward.com/opinion/137577/outlawing-circumcision/

Yigal Ben-Nun
Historian, Israel
It's Time to Give Up Circumcision, 2017 (Haaretz, archive)

Miriam Pollack
Circumcision: Identity, Gender, and Power, 2011
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfnqN3YgTd8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAQdM2CxY5c&t=2s

Rani Kasher
Time to Talk About Circumcision, 2017 (Haaretz, archive)

Ross Glazier
Architect, University of Chicago
Jewish Circumcision a Symptom of Larger Problems

Lo Maret
Doula, USA
Jewish Doula Educates on Normalcy of Foreskin

Nicole Katz-Lahey
A Circumcision Activist Is Born

Uri Misgav
Journalist, Haaretz

Rebecca Steinfeld
Visiting Research Fellow, Centre of the Body at Goldsmiths, University of London
It Cuts Both Ways: A Jew Argues for Child Rights Over Religious Circumcision, 2013