Reply #211: I have a very good friend (she's Jewish and has six kids) who has told me [View All]

[fleabert]

that the rule of circumcision, when read in Hebrew, only states that blood must be drawn. a cut must be made. so many Jews today, armed with the medical knowledge now available about circumcision and it's drawbacks, are choosing a 'symbolic circumcision'. Only a small cut is made to represent the law perscribed in the bible. Or, for others, a strictly symbolic covenant ritual is performed, with no cutting at all.

Check out this link for an interesting perspective from a Jewish writer. It is from an anti-circ site, but valid nonetheless, as the writer does not solely write for that site.

http://www.nocirc.org/symposia/second/moss.html