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Websites:
Brit Shalom Celebrants
Rabbi Steven Blane [Officiant.org]
Free Bris [Facebook Page]
Jewish Circumcision Resource Center
Jewish Circumcision Resource Info Summary
Jews Against Circumcision
Beyond the Bris
Articles:
The Intactivist Movement Within Judaism [additional resources that extend beyond the scope of this page]
Jewish Father's Letter to His Son Regarding Circumcision
Circumcision: Identity, Gender and Power
One Jewish Physician, Father, & Grandfather speaks
My Son, The Little Jew with a Foreskin
My Story of Ritual Abuse
Biblical Circumcision Information
The Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion: Circumcision (CIRP)
Circumcision Then and Now (CIRP)
Our Son's Bris Shalom: Welcoming Covenant
A Letter to My Intact Son: Why I Kept You Whole
Ready to Talk: A Jewish Mother's Change of Heart
Jewish Mother on Circumcision
Books:
Questioning Circumcision: A Jewish Perspective
Covenant of Blood: Circumcision and Gender in Rabbinic Judaism
Marked in Your Flesh: Circumcision from Ancient Judea to Modern America
A Measure of His Grief
Circumcision: A History of the World's Most Controversial Surgery
Circumcision: The Hidden Trauma
Circumcision: The Rest of the Story
Circumcision: The Painful Dilemma
The documentary, CUT: Slicing Through the Myths of Circumcision, is an excellent examination by Jewish filmmaker, Ungar-Sargon, who was raised an Orthodox Jew. Ungar-Sargon investigates the prepuce organ (foreskin) and circumcision within Judaism before his own son is born.
Buy the full CUT DVD (with extra features) here.
Alternative Bris Options:
Many Jewish parents today are electing to have a Brit Shalom in place of a brit milah [circumcision ceremony]. For more information, and to talk with other Jewish parents electing this for their sons, see:
http://www.jewsagainstcircumcision.org/brisshalom.htm
http://www.fathermag.com/health/circ/bris/
Support and information for Jewish parents on alternative (non-cutting) bris ceremonies: |
| Norm Cohen NOCIRC/Michigan P.O. Box 333 Birmingham, MI 48012 Tel 248-642-5703 | Moshe Rothenberg, C.S.W. Alternative Bris Support and Ceremonies Brooklyn, NY 718-859-0650 | Ron Goldman, Ph.D. Jewish Associates of CRC P.O. Box 232 Boston, MA 02133 Tel 617-523-0088 |
[Dove graphic above comes from the Celebrants of Brit Shalom]
Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope. ~ Robert F. Kennedy
Additional Resources (scholarly books, websites, and articles) on the prepuce organ (foreskin), intact care, and circumcision are linked at: Are You Fully Informed?
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