And at the center the book and the House of Prayer. Yet, though I accept this gift, I accept not unto myself the continual rehearsal of our sorrow, And our children's sorrow, The suffering of the ages, of this very century of Holocaust. Which resonate a new vision of reality, I dare to be wholly Jewish and dare to be wholly human. The same can be applied to the religions and cultures that we belong to. However, the mistakes that it carries within it, such as the ritual of circumcision, called brit milah, should not be considered any differently than in society in general, no matter how essentially important to the Jewish culture it is seen.
Circumcision is child abuse.
It is medically unnecessary. It is nothing short of a traumatic way to introduce a newborn male into the world and into the Jewish community. The centuries of a covenant with God has produced great denial in viewing the very real pain of the newborn. From the start it relegates females as being less important than males as historically there has been no equivalent ceremony to welcome the newborn Jewish female baby. Too often the needs, wishes and cries of the young go unnoticed or unheeded.