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Friday, November 11, 2005 12:00 AM

Honk if you're uncut!

A reader is perplexed by a bumper sticker about foreskin.

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  • Saturday, November 12, 2005 03:30 PM

    As a Torah Observant Jew...

    I really don't care one way or the other if non-Jews leave their boys intact or not, it's none of my business. That said, here are a couple of thoughts:

    1) Leave me and my community alone.

    2) If you do want to have your boy circumcised, find the nearest Mohel and do it on his 8th day. Don't have it done by doctors, they don't know wtf they are doing. I've seen it, up close and personal many times now, and about half the time the boy doesn't cry. We've been doing it for over 3000 years now, we've got it down pat. A Mohel doesn't become a Mohel until he does his own son.

    3) There actually are studies out now that show that there is some protective effect from HIV, be that as it may.

    4) During the Holocaust, the Nazis used to check for circumcision in order to see who to send to die, and who not to.

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