| "Among the great strengths of Judaism are its rationality, its commitment to learning and scholarship, the tradition of gemilut chasadim, acts of loving kindness, and the prohibition of deliberately causing pain. Cutting off a baby's penis violates all of these traditions and strengths." "The argument that Jewish babies have a right to have part of their penises cut off before they are old enough to give or withhold consent, because to do otherwise would deprive them of their heritage, is irrational. Heritage here means doing what we have done. It may seem, at first, to insult one's ancestors to do other than what they did, but it is equally an insult to our own and our descendant's intelligence, to cling blindly to customs of the past." from www.jewsagainstcircumcision.org |