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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP again. Just looked up this about the brit shalom... really fascinating. She makes the same point about the difficulty of surviving the practice in the past:

http://www.beyondthebris.com/2012/04/choosing-brit-shalom-over-brit-milah.html?m=1[/quote]

Powerful, but it should come with a warning.  It makes me really feel for the Jews who do this to their son -- I think it's harder for the moms and dads who are under pressure to hurt their son (waking up in the middle night, dry heaves, sweating, being blacklisted from family/friends -- wow!!) than the son who likely won't remember either way.  That is not okay for a culture to pressure adults to do something they know is wrong.  It's one thing if they know it's right, then it is fine (since it is still legal in the United States, but illegal in many developed nations). I did not circumcise and neither did any of my friends (Jewish and not).  I know we are a unique crowd -- many of us homebirth, cloth-diaper, breast-feeding, homeschooling, etc -- but the "norm" of the people in my circle is not to do it.[/quote]

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