The Future of Foreskins By Daniel S. Brenner In 1999, the American Academy of Pediatricians issued a statement that decreed circumcision an elective surgery. Since then, the number of male babies undergoing circumcision has been in sharp decline. Many HMOs no longer cover the in-house hospital procedure, and the cut once done on 85% of males is now performed on less than half of American born boys. Many read this trend as a reflection of a growing social and environmental…
Revelation – Community-Wide Shavuot Keynote, Shomrei Emunah, Montclair, New Jersey
Revelation and its Discontents By Daniel S. Brenner A sign I saw while taking a shabbes walk read: Hear God’s Word. Be God’s Voice. God is still speaking. -First Church of Christ The sign made me think of the Sunday mornings of my youth. Growing up as I did, a Jew boy in North Carolina, a gefilte fish out of water, Sunday morning was about as exciting as watching paint dry. All my neighborhood friends were at church, and that…