Difference between revisions of "Jonathan Abraham"

From IntactiWiki
Jump to navigation Jump to search
m (DEFAULTSORT)
 
(10 intermediate revisions by one other user not shown)
Line 1: Line 1:
−
{{Construction Site}}
 
 
'''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''' is a London-based Jewish rabbi and [[mohel]]. He is a member of the [http://www.initiationsociety.net/ Initiation Society], which trains mohels to perform [[Brit Milah| ritual circumcision]].<ref name="pope2024">{{REFnews
 
'''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''' is a London-based Jewish rabbi and [[mohel]]. He is a member of the [http://www.initiationsociety.net/ Initiation Society], which trains mohels to perform [[Brit Milah| ritual circumcision]].<ref name="pope2024">{{REFnews
 
  |title=London rabbi arrested in Ireland over ‘illegal’ circumcision of non-Jewish babies
 
  |title=London rabbi arrested in Ireland over ‘illegal’ circumcision of non-Jewish babies
Line 10: Line 9:
 
  |website=
 
  |website=
 
  |date=2024-08-02
 
  |date=2024-08-02
−
  |accessdate=
+
  |accessdate=2024-11-09
 
  |format=
 
  |format=
 
  |quote=
 
  |quote=
Line 26: Line 25:
 
  |quote=
 
  |quote=
 
}}</ref>
 
}}</ref>
−
 
+
==Alleged criminal act==
 
Rabbi Abraham went to Dublin, Ireland where he allegedly performed a [[circumcision]] on a non-Jewish infant boy on or about 1 August 2024.<ref name="pope2024" />  
 
Rabbi Abraham went to Dublin, Ireland where he allegedly performed a [[circumcision]] on a non-Jewish infant boy on or about 1 August 2024.<ref name="pope2024" />  
  
Line 33: Line 32:
 
Officers saw "a very young child on the changing pad naked” and another child who had already been circumcised.<ref name="pope2024" />
 
Officers saw "a very young child on the changing pad naked” and another child who had already been circumcised.<ref name="pope2024" />
 
</blockquote>
 
</blockquote>
−
This is alleged to be a violation of the [https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2007/act/25/enacted/en/html Medical Practitioners Act (2007)], which allows Jewish boys to have a less rigorous standard of safety in circumcision surgical [[amputation]] than other boys.<ref name="pope2024" />
+
This is alleged to be a violation of the [https://revisedacts.lawreform.ie/eli/2007/act/25/revised/en/html Medical Practitioners Act (2007)], which allows Jewish boys to have a less rigorous standard of safety in circumcision surgical [[amputation]] than other boys.<ref name="pope2024" />
  
 
Abraham has posted €60,000 bail and is now allowed to return to his home in London while awaiting his trial in Dublin.<ref name="tuite2024" />
 
Abraham has posted €60,000 bail and is now allowed to return to his home in London while awaiting his trial in Dublin.<ref name="tuite2024" />
 +
==Irish precedent==
 +
In 2015, a father-of-six, Philip Ogbewe, from Nigeria but living in Ireland 20 years and residing at Green Lanes, Drogheda, Co Louth, used a blade on the infant during a crude cultural circumcision. Ogbewe pleaded guilty to reckless endangerment of life by performing the circumcision on the baby which led to serious haemorrhaging which created a substantial risk of death or serious harm, at the infant’s home in a midlands town on December 4th, 2015.<ref name="tuite2020">{{REFnews
 +
|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/circuit-court/man-jailed-for-three-years-for-barbaric-circumcision-without-anaesthetic-1.4261959
 +
|title=Man jailed for three years for ‘barbaric’ circumcision without anaesthetic
 +
|first=Tom
 +
|last=Tuite
 +
|publisher=The Irish Times
 +
|date=2020-05-25
 +
|accessdate=2024-11-09
 +
}}</ref>
  
−
==Legality of non-therapeutic circumcision of minor boys.==
+
==Legal commentary==
−
Infant boys are unable to grant consent for amputation of a functional body part. Infant circumcision has no medical indication and does not treat or prevent disease. It is considered to be a violation of the international law of [[human rights]].
+
* {{REFjournal
 +
|last=Adler
 +
|first=Peter W.
 +
|init=PW
 +
|author-link=Peter W. Adler
 +
|title=Is circumcision legal?
 +
|journal=Richmond Journal of Law and the Public Interest
 +
|date=2013
 +
|volume=16
 +
|issue=3
 +
|pages=439-86
 +
|url=https://scholarship.richmond.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1265&context=jolpi
 +
|format=PDF
 +
|accessdate=2024-11-09
 +
}}
 +
* {{REFjournal
 +
|last=Geisheker
 +
|init=JV
 +
|author-link=
 +
|url=https://www.newmalestudies.com/OJS/index.php/nms/article/view/60
 +
|title=The Completely Unregulated Practice of Male Circumcision: Human Rights’ Abuse Enshrined in Law?
 +
|journal=New Male Studies
 +
|date=2013
 +
|volume=2
 +
|issue=1
 +
|pages=18-45
 +
|format=PDF
 +
|accessdate=2023-11-09
 +
}}
 +
* {{REFjournal
 +
|last=Fox
 +
|first=Marie
 +
|init=M
 +
|author-link=
 +
|last2=Thomson
 +
|first2=Michael
 +
|init2=M
 +
|author2-link=
 +
|etal=so
 +
|title=Bodily Integrity, Embodiment and the Regulation of Parental Choice
 +
|journal=Journal of Law and Society
 +
|location=
 +
|date=2017
 +
|volume=44
 +
|issue=4
 +
|pages=501-31
 +
|url=http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/122232/3/Fox_Thomson_Bod_Int_revised%206March17.pdf
 +
|archived=
 +
|quote=
 +
|pubmedID=
 +
|pubmedCID=
 +
|DOI=
 +
|accessdate=2020-09-08
 +
}}
 +
*  {{REFjournal
 +
|last=Möller
 +
|first=Kai
 +
|init=K
 +
|author-link=
 +
|title=Male and Female Genital Cutting: Between the Best Interest of the Child and Genital Mutilation
 +
|journal=Oxford Journal of Legal Studies
 +
|date=2024-11-09
 +
|volume=
 +
|issue=
 +
|pages=
 +
|url=https://academic.oup.com/ojls/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ojls/gqaa001/5862902
 +
|DOI=10.1093/ojls/gqaa001
 +
|accessdate=2024-11-09
 +
}}
 +
 
 +
{{SEEALSO}}
 +
* [[Re B and G (children) (No 2) EWFC 3]]
 +
* [[Mohammad Siddiqui]]
  
 
{{REF}}
 
{{REF}}
 +
 +
{{DEFAULTSORT:Abraham Jonathan}}
  
 
[[Category:Person]]
 
[[Category:Person]]
 
[[Category:Male]]
 
[[Category:Male]]
 +
 
[[Category:Jewish]]
 
[[Category:Jewish]]
 
[[Category:Criminal circumcision]]
 
[[Category:Criminal circumcision]]
 +
 
[[Category:Ireland]]
 
[[Category:Ireland]]
 
[[Category:UK]]
 
[[Category:UK]]

Latest revision as of 14:39, 11 November 2024

Jonathan Abraham is a London-based Jewish rabbi and mohel. He is a member of the Initiation Society, which trains mohels to perform ritual circumcision.[1] He is not a registered medical practitioner.[2]

Alleged criminal act

Rabbi Abraham went to Dublin, Ireland where he allegedly performed a circumcision on a non-Jewish infant boy on or about 1 August 2024.[1]

According to the Jewish Chronicle:

Officers saw "a very young child on the changing pad naked” and another child who had already been circumcised.[1]

This is alleged to be a violation of the Medical Practitioners Act (2007), which allows Jewish boys to have a less rigorous standard of safety in circumcision surgical amputation than other boys.[1]

Abraham has posted €60,000 bail and is now allowed to return to his home in London while awaiting his trial in Dublin.[2]

Irish precedent

In 2015, a father-of-six, Philip Ogbewe, from Nigeria but living in Ireland 20 years and residing at Green Lanes, Drogheda, Co Louth, used a blade on the infant during a crude cultural circumcision. Ogbewe pleaded guilty to reckless endangerment of life by performing the circumcision on the baby which led to serious haemorrhaging which created a substantial risk of death or serious harm, at the infant’s home in a midlands town on December 4th, 2015.[3]

Legal commentary

See also

References

  1. ↑ a b c d REFnews Pope, Felix (2 August 2024)."London rabbi arrested in Ireland over ‘illegal’ circumcision of non-Jewish babies", Jewish Chronicle. Retrieved 9 November 2024.
  2. ↑ a b REFnews Tuite, Tom (22 August 2024)."Rabbi charged with performing illegal circumcision on baby boy allowed to return to London on €60,000 bail", The Irish Times. Retrieved 8 November 2024.
  3. ↑ REFnews Tuite, Tom (25 May 2020)."Man jailed for three years for ‘barbaric’ circumcision without anaesthetic", The Irish Times. Retrieved 9 November 2024.
Retrieved from "https://en.intactiwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Jonathan_Abraham&oldid=39874"