The same can be said about the religions and cultures to which we belong.
Circumcision is child abuse.
It is medically unnecessary. It is a poor way to introduce a newborn male into the world and into the Jewish community. This presentation will focus on my experience as an active Jew living in an observant Jewish community in Brooklyn, New York, who chose not to have his son circumcised. To be a Jew in the Twentieth Century Is to be offered a gift, - says Muriel Rukeyser, the poet. Even the dates bespeak an alien calendar.