According to the WHO, male circumcision reduces the risk of heterosexually acquiring HIV in men by about 60 percent. Fortunately circumcision is a common ritual in Africa, although traditional methods cause a loot of botched procedures n young male children. So a circumcision device made[...]
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July 14th, 2013 - 5:34 am § in Misc.
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Circumcision
South African police arrest five for botched circumcision deaths JOHANNESBURG – South African police have arrested five people on suspicion of murder for botched circumcisions that led to the deaths of about 30 boys in coming-of-age rituals in the rural Eastern Cape province, a police spokeswo[...]
April 20th, 2013 - 1:00 am § in Misc.
Andrew Sullivan on Circumcision
Andrew Sullivan on circumcision.[...]
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: The right to circumcision
Berlin, Germany – Protestors In Berlin Rally Against Circumcision Ruling Today 11:07 AM Berlin, Germany – Some several hundred people, including Jews, Christians and Muslims, took to the streets of Berlin today to protest the ongoing controversy over religious circumcision which began wh[...]
March 29th, 2020 - 7:57 am § in Jews
Sunday Revelation: San Francisco to Ban Male Jews, Will Not Solve Budget Crisis
Lloyd Schofield, and his supporters, have until April 26 to gather 7,200 valid signatures to ban male circumcision under age 18. Their website is www.sfmgmbill.org. The measure would make it “unlawful to … to circumcise, excise, cut, or mutilate the whole or any part of the foreskin, testicl[...]
Who Controls Hollywood?
Joel Stein, LA Times: 2008 I have never been so upset by a poll in my life. Only 22% of Americans now believe “the movie and television industries are pretty much run by Jews,” down from nearly 50% in 1964. The Anti-Defamation League, which released the poll results last month, sees in these n[...]
Crazy Rich Jews Coming to a Theater near You! Starring Mel Gibson!
I gotta admit, I enjoyed “Crazy Rich Asians” with all the pleasure that ethnic satire can bring. But, to be honest, I keep thinking of my Asian friends. Would they think this was funny? Would I think the movie was funny if it made fun of wealthy Jews? I guess I may get to answer [&hell[...]
December 31st, 2017 - 1:27 am § in Christianity, Misc.
The New Year isn’t just about resolutions and hangovers — it’s about foreskin.
Until it slipped away, the foreskin of Jesus was paraded through town annually on Jan. 1, the Feast of the Circumcision. (edited from article published by the Jewish Transcript Agency) Circumcision, the bris, is celebrated eight days after the birth of a Jewish boy. Jesus was a Jew. And New Y[...]
First Night of Hanukkah
The real history of Hanukkah’s origins is more complicated. It is as much the tale of a Jewish civil war as it is about successful resistance against foreign interlopers. Daniel Marans, HUFFINGTON POST What’s more, the miracle of oil ― the inspiration for most of the contemporary hol[...]
November 28th, 2017 - 11:25 am § in Misc.
Hannukah, the history
By Daniel Marans and Nick Baumann, HuffPost… with modifications by SMS in blue. Americans who know anything about the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah may have heard that it celebrates the victory of good over evil — the triumph of light over darkness. But the real history of Hanukkah’s orig[...]