Godless Wonder: Gefilte Flesh: So Foreskin Is Kosher? Phew!

Godless Wonder: Gefilte Flesh: So Foreskin Is Kosher? Phew!



New guidelines issued by New York City’s health commissioner calls for rabbis to stop sucking the blood from the freshly cut foreskin of infant boys. It does not explicitly ban the practice, however.

In an open letter to the Jewish community Commissioner Thomas Frieden explained that during his survey it was found that one rabbi had served as mohel to three infants that had neonatal herpes. The odds of this happening by chance are roughly one in 7 million.


(Bilde fra www.landoverbaptist.org)