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Posted on 07/13/2012 3:19:23 PM PDT by Former Fetus
Orthodox rabbis from across Europe urged Jews in Germany Thursday to continue circumcising baby boys, at an "emergency" meeting called over a court ruling branding the religious rite a criminal act.
"We call on the Jewish community and on parents to continuing practising brit milah (the Jewish circumcision ritual) and not to wait for a change to the judicial ruling," Pinchas Goldschmidt, president of the Conference of European Rabbis, told a meeting in Berlin of around 40 Orthodox Jewish clerics.
Goldschmidt said circumcision of boys on the eighth day after birth was a crucial tenet of Jewish law and that Jews were obliged to respect it.
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Germans legislate Jewish religious practices. Again it begins.
For that alone, I respect her.
“And you see, Jews are a tiny minority on Germany”
Just as they are in the USA. Yet there’s more Jews in the Congress than there are blacks, Hispanics, and Asians, combined. I’m just saying that if they get involved they’d have a voice to repeal this law via the process.
“And Germans have lost ANY right to regulate trivial practices”
The same law could easily pass in the USA.
Oh, wait, it has:
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2077240,00.html
I guess San Francisco, home of Dianne Feinstein, hates Jews?
Why are governments suddenly fixated on infant penises.
“These kinds of absurd prohibitions beg to be defied.”
Until I read this I (as a circumcized Christian) had no idea German Christians/atheists didn’t get circumcised. I thought most Europeans did, though maybe not in the south (I know Hispanics often don’t).
Isn’t there a whole hygiene issue (besides the religious side)? My sons were all circumcised; it was a foregone conclusion when they were born. It is uncomfortable at first (they holler when they urinate while it heals), but well worth it for the rest of their lives.
The health benefits of circumcision are debatable, but most Gentile Germans do not get circumcised, I don’t believe. I remember reading that that was one way the SS used to identify German males of “dubious” ancestry: if they were circumcised, it was “off to the camps.”
I remember reading something about some Jews in Argentina being taunted as “clipped pr*cks”, and it made me realize that Argentines had no idea how many Gentiles are circumcised.
We don’t have a ritual; we just do it. I believe in Turkey there is a ritual - when the kid is 13! (ouch)
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How about just leaving Germany, already. Europe is done. It had its second, third, fourth and five hundredth chances. Enough.
The difference: Circumcized men can still have erections and orgasms, and there peckers are even arguably more attractive-looking. “Circumcized” girls are left with no libido whatever, just the ability to submit to whatever a man does to them.
Herzl was not the first Zionist or even modern Zionist. Rabbi Zevi Hirsch Kalischer published his Derishat Tziyon veHevrat Erez Noshevet calling for the colonization of Palestine, the admissibility of sacrifices in Palestine, and self-help as a the means of hastening redemption in 1862, when Herzl was still nursing. Kalischer set up a agricultural school in 1870. Herzl popularized Zionism and got great press from the left, but he created no new idea. “Seeking Zion” was written a generation before “The Jewish State”
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