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Mark
25/9/2019 11:23:54 am
Again - not a surprise as Simon is Jewish.
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Paul
26/9/2019 08:34:01 am
Not all Jewish men end up circumcised - there was a young British Jewish guy on the recent BBC One circumcision documentary who hadn’t been cut - so it is good to hear that Simon says that he is circumcised during a stage routine.
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Mark
26/9/2019 05:48:30 pm
That's true, Paul, but 99% are - the guy on TV came from a very non-Orthodox Jewish family. I think in recent times the Reformist wing of Judaism have also decided not to circumcise their boys but this is a more recent idea
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KD
26/9/2019 09:34:09 pm
Not quite right - Reform Judaism still sees circumcision (brit milah) as non negotiable, however if not circumcised neither the boy nor his parents are cut off from the community yet it is generally kept very quiet. Liberal Judaism is more lenient to not doing it (by how much, I’m not sure as I’m Reform), but Orthodox and Conservative streams absolutely require it.
David
27/9/2019 10:32:16 am
I hope Simon Brodkin isn't as distressed by it as Tom Rosenthal (whose show I'm going to see tonight).
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Joshua
29/9/2019 06:49:53 am
Dave - Did you like the show?
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David
30/9/2019 10:45:46 am
The Tom Rosenthal show was a good evening. I was surprised how many straight couples were there and wondered who had done the booking!. I went with an uncut friend who is a fan of those of us who are cut ;-) Ultimately I am fortunate to not mind being cut in the way that Tom Rosenthal seems to have become very worked up by it poor guy. It does reference lots of studies although as a Danish researcher pointed out in the Guardian the case for loss of sensitivity/pleasure is far from accepted by academics.
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