The Jerusalem Post: “Infant hospitalized with severe herpes infection after circumcision involving direct oral suction.”

Appalling. An extract:

“The use of direct oral suction during circumcision has been the subject of medical and halachic (Jewish legal) debate for years. The Health Ministry has repeatedly warned against the practice and instructed mohels to use a glass tube or designated sterile device to avoid direct contact between the mohel’s mouth and the infant.

At the same time, the Interministerial Oversight Committee of Mohalim has stressed that mohels are required to inform parents of the risks associated with direct oral suction and obtain their explicit consent. Still, in some communities, the practice appears to continue despite the known dangers, sometimes without parents fully understanding the possible health consequences.

In 2012, the issue made international headlines after health authorities in New York documented a series of confirmed neonatal herpes cases linked to ritual circumcisions involving direct oral suction. In Israel, Schneider Children’s Medical Center also publicized similar cases, including two infants hospitalized in 2016 after contracting herpes in the circumcision area.”

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One thought on “The Jerusalem Post: “Infant hospitalized with severe herpes infection after circumcision involving direct oral suction.”

  1. MGM just one of the areas where religion and culture collide with modern society. This story is in a number of MSM. Islamic charity: ‘Mandatory for wives to do housework and serve’ | National Secular Society Unsurprising teaching in a Mosque from an Imam. Though I note that the NSS leaves out the bit, reported elsewhere, where he says Husbands are to work and support the wives and family specially female relatives. I suppose the entertaining part is the clash between “multiculturalism” and at the same time insisting adherence to an orthodoxy. One of which is although women have free choice to do as they will, it is still the husband’s responsibility to work and earn money to support the whole family, even if he’s kicked out of his home and excluded from seeing his children. So orthodox an idea that I suspect no one will object to the Koran’s teachings that men should be husbands and lead their family by supporting it through working hard.

    The cheeky part of me wonders if the latest Green MP, a declared feminist and admirer of the “strong women” of the feminist movements. Has seen this and reflects on the “Muslim” block vote that put her there. Will there come a time when the price of that vole will be more than spouting slogans about Gaza? For instance Jess Phillip’s tarnished halo as it become evident, to the women themselves, that her crusade for “women and girls” doesn’t extend to those victimised by Grooming Gangs…. just in case the Muslim vote gets the extra few hundred votes that will lose her her seat.

    Turns out “multiculturalism” works in complex ways.

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