Max Mintz: Difference between revisions

Dr. '''Max Ronald Mintz''', {{MD}}, is a retired Houston-area pediatrician who now works solely as a ''[[mohel]]'', or ritual circumcisor of Jewish babies.<ref name="HoustonChronicle">{{REFnews

}}</ref> His discussion will include reasons some of these parents have shared with him... He offers his "services" to Jewish and non-Jewish parents who want their children [[circumcised]].<ref name="HoustonChronicle"/>

Mintz started off as a doctor, but he became a ritual circumcisor when he [[circumcised]] a son of wife's cousin in 1979 who lived in Beaumont, {{USSC|TX}}, 90 miles east of Houston, {{USSC|TX}}, and the only three [[mohel]]s in Houston at the time were already booked.<ref name="HoustonChronicle"/>

Mintz began to keep count of his [[circumcision]]s shortly after beginning his [[mohel]] career.<ref name="HoustonChronicle"/> According to his own estimations, Mintz has circumcised 9,700 babies during the past 30 years<ref name="HoustonChronicle"/>, and he aimed to make this number an even 10,000 by the end of 2012.<ref name="HoustonChronicle"/> His five grandsons are included in that number.<ref name="HoustonChronicle"/>

Being 71 in 2012, Mintz said he'd keep circumcising until he gets shaky.<ref name="HoustonChronicle"/>

Mintz makes his living circumcising not only-Jewish children, but also gentile, non-Jewish children as well.<ref name="HoustonChronicle"/> While for Jewish children, he circumcises out of religious conviction, he circumcises non-Jewish children for the aesthetic or health reasons his gentile clients give him.<ref name="HoustonChronicle"/> However there is financial interest involved, as he charges $350.00 per child.<ref name="HoustonChronicle"/> As a licensed pediatrican, one may assume that he qualifies for [[third-party payment]] from insurance providers.

== Circumcision Symposium at the {{UNI|University of Texas Medical Branch|UTMB}} ==

On Friday, Jun 15, 2012, UTMB hosted the symposium "[https://www.joseph4gi.com/2012/06/texas-utmb-debates-pros-cons-and.html Cutting Edge Debate: Pros, Cons and Contexts of Male Circumcision]" from 2:00pm to 4:00pm at the Moody Gardens Hotel as part of their 61st Pediatrics by the Gulf annual Pediatric Review and Update.<ref name="UTMB">{{REFnews

A panel was supposed to engage in "multidimensional discussion" of the ethical questions raised by the practice of [[circumcision]], the wide array of varied views and circumcision and the supposed "social and cultural contexts that shape those views." The audience was invited to participate in discussion.<ref name="UTMB"/>

Max Mintz was one of the panelists, and he spoke from the perspective of Jewish tradition,<ref name="UTMB"/> as well as he shared the reasons for circumcising non-Jewish babies as part of his [[mohel]] practice.<ref name="UTMB"/>

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