We’re curious what your thoughts are on circumcision. Did you know that besides baby boys in the Middle East and a few African tribes most boys in the world are not circumcised?
From the article
The Chief Rabbinate and both chief rabbis sent their condolences to the family and told media they had been in close contact with both the mohel who had performed the circumcision and the hospital doctors who were trying to save the baby’s life
The rabbinate claimed (to Channel 2) that the doctors at Holon’s Wolfson Hospital were able to allegedly confirm that the boy’s life-threatening condition allegedly had been caused not by the circumcision itself, but allegedly by a preexisting medical condition. Notice I use the term allegedly- because still no proof of this claim has been brought forward that I can find.
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Last Thursday, the eight-day-old infant had been undergoing the brit milah ritual at the Pinhas Lavon synagogue in Holon when he stopped breathing.
The family made desperate calls to Magen David Adom for an ambulance and to the Hazalah first response organization.
Medic Yehuda Mizrahi was first to arrive on the scene.
“When I arrived, the baby was completely blue, not breathing and with no pulse,” he told Channel 2, and described how he began resuscitation techniques, including massages to try to restart the boy’s vital systems. Finally an ambulance arrived and the infant was rushed to Wolfson hospital.
Fewer and fewer babies in the US are being circumcised as parents are more frequently opting out of the procedure. Insurances are even starting to charge the parents for it more, which has also been a reason some have declined.
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