The following is from the NY Times:
New York City health officials proposed on Tuesday that Orthodox Jewish parents be required to sign a consent waiver before they can take part in a circumcision ritual that is believed to have led to the deaths of at least two babies in the city over the past decade.
The proposal, introduced at a Board of Health meeting, represents an escalation of the city’s efforts to curtail the ancient Jewish procedure of metzitzah b’peh, in which an adult male, usually the circumciser, places his mouth directly on the wound created by the removal of the infant’s foreskin to suck away the blood.
Dr. Jay K. Varma, deputy commissioner for disease control for the health department, announced the city’s next step, proposing that the Board of Health, which approves public health policies, require all parents who want direct oral suction to be used to sign a consent form indicating that they are aware of the risk of infection.
The mohel, or ritual circumciser, would distribute the consent forms to parents before the circumcision and keep them on hand for at least a year. The precise warning language would be written by health officials, Dr. Varma said.
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Just went to a Bris this morning and the mohel used a plastic tube. It was so weird and different…….
hockintherock says:
June 13, 2012 at 9:24 am
Just went to a Bris this morning and the mohel used a plastic tube. It was so weird and different…….
not weird at all MP is not done by about 99% of jews including most religious Jews only the black hat ajews still do this
#2, your statistics are way off. For one thing, the majority of religious Jews are “black hat”.
The mohel and the father were black hatters……