Outlawing Circumcision
Good for the Jews?
By Eli Ungar-Sargon
http://forward.com/articles/137577/outlawing-circumcision/
Beyond the Bris: Questioning Jewish Circumcision
Welcome to the web-based multimedia project that’s putting real faces and voices to the current Jewish movement opposing circumcision.
Questioning Circumcision: A Jewish Perspective
8/7/2011
By Ronald Goldman, Ph.D.
review by J. Steven Svoboda
Although many believe circumcision necessary for Jewish survival and identity, under Jewish law, any child born of a Jewish mother is a Jew, whether circumcised or not.
http://arclaw.org/resources/book-reviews/questioning-circumcision-jewish-perspective
Germany awarded political asylum to a Turkish man based on his fear of enforced circumcision: „There may be … no doubt that a circumcision which has taken place against the will of the person affected shows a violation of his physical and psychological integrity which is of significance to asylum.“
http://arclaw.org/our-work/presentations/traditional-practices-affecting-health-women-and-girl-child
We recognize the inherent right of all human beings to an intact body. Without religious or racial prejudice, we affirm this basic human right.
We recognize that the foreskin, clitoris and labia are normal, functional body parts.
Parents and/or guardians do not have the right to consent to the surgical removal or modification of their children’s normal genitalia.
Declaration of the First International
Symposium on Circumcision
Adopted March 3, 1989
Anaheim, California
http://www.nocirc.org/declare.php
Progressive Rabbis On Creating A Jewish Covenant Without Circumcision
Article | January 27, 2012