Israel – Three Meretz MKs, filed a bill to establish a committee to determine criteria for certification for ritual circumcisers (mohelim).
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According to the bill, the committee that would define the Circumcision Law, would be jointly made up of officials from the Ministry of Health and the Chief Rabbinate.
Violators of the law could face up to three years in prison.
in america you don’t need to but in israel you need to!!
what a funny world we live in
What is wrong with certifying a Mohel???
Wouldn’t that alleviate diseases being transferred from Mohel to child.
The certification would also ensure that the Mohel knows what he’s doing.
Just another attempt by the virulently anti-religious Meretz Party to stifle relgion and its practitioners. It’s so sad that their whole philosophy is based on hatred and denigration of religion
What is wrong with certifying a Mohel???
Wouldn’t that alleviate diseases being transferred from Mohel to child.
The certification would also ensure that the Mohel knows what he’s doing.
The danger is that it starts with this, and ends with deciding how & when brisim may be made. The soviet Union used the same method to ban brissim without “impeding on religous rights”.
The fact that the uncercumcised are tho ones pushing for the bill, pretty much provws their agenda.
Number three is absolutley correct. Why does the anti-religious Meretz party think that it has to pass provisions relating to milah. Their underlying wish is to do whatever they can to disrupt religious practices.
They are being redundant, there already is a division of the chief rabbinate that certifies. I don’t know if they appointed a replacement for Rav Yossel Weisberg Z”L yet but he was in charge of this as well as a few other Mohalim. The Mohalim were required to open a file in the Chief Rabbinate and submit to oral and written exams and then have one of the supervisors observe the mohel performing and only then would they receive certification
In the former soviet union you could go to jail for 5 years for performing a bris. Now due to the soviet faction in Israel, meretz, you can go to jail for 3 years for the crime of performing a bris. The purpose of requring such certification is dubious.
1) There is not single CONFIRMED case of a baby getting a disease from a mohel in over 70 years.
2) The presumed or suggested cases of HSV-1 infection were written by certain Herr Doktor Rabbiners that have a decades old agenda of trying to abolish MBP and trying to undermine the ultra orthodox rabbinate, just liketheir reform predecessors.
3) The only ones who have tried to regulate Jewish ritual circumcision and MBP in the 3700 years of it’s continuos use are it’s opponents.
4) In the anti religious zionist state of Israel that’s looks to jump on every indisgression of the ultra orthodox, large scale studies have shown that the oldest elective surgical procedure in the world has the lowest complication rate averaging 0.36%. The bias in the report is noticed because while the report cites more cases of complication among mohelim than doctors, no where does it suggest what the ratio of doctor to mohel performed circumcisions in Israel actually is. i.e., if there are 100 times more circumcisions done by mohelim then doctors, the mohelim will still have a lower complication rate than the doctors. This information is not published leading me to believe that is indeed the case.
Complications of Circumcision in Israel: A One Year Multicenter Survey. Ben Chaim J, Livne PM, Binyamini J, Hardak B, Ben-Meir D, Mor Y. Isr Med Assoc Journal 2005: 7(6) pp.368-70, Pubmed 15984378.
5) The lack of infection and complications in ritual Jewish circumcision is indeed so low, some have even questioned the need for a sterile as a opposed to a clean operating environment for some low risk surgeries.
Are sterile conditions essential for all forms of cutaneous surgery? The case of ritual neonatal circumcision. Naimer SA, Trattner A. J Cutan Med Surg. 2000, 4(4), pp 177-80. Pubmed 11231194.
In short “Bichol dor vidor omdim aleinu licholosainu….”
A new book detailing the recent fraudulent attacks on MBP is slated for release around Chanukah time.