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'''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''' refers to the practice by many Jewish parents of performing a circumcision on eight-day-old boys as mandated by the [[Abrahamic covenant]] found in Genesis 17. The circumcision is NOT a medical procedure. It is carried out by a religious official called a [[mohel]]. The circumcision is a religious ceremony called [[Brit Milah]].
Hiss et al. (2000) reported the death of a boy from [[exsanguination]] after [[Brit Milah| ritual circumcision]]<ref name="hiss2000">{{REFjournal
|last=Hiss
|first=J
|author-link=
|last2=Horowitz
|first2=A
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|last3=Kahana
|first3=T
|etal=no
|title=Fatal haemorrhage following male ritual circumcision
|trans-title=
|language=
|journal=J Clin Forensic Med
|location=
|date=2000-03
|volume=7
|issue=1
|pages=32-4
|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/death/hiss1/
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|pubmedID=15274991
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|DOI=10.1054/jcfm.1999.0340
|accessdate=2025-05-19
}}</ref>
Several medical articles have reported [[urinary tract infection]] (UTI) in Israel after [[Brit Milah| ritual circumcision]].<ref name="cohen1992">{{REFjournal
[[Bruchim]] is an American Jewish organization that seeks to make non-cutting accepted in synagogues.
==The harm of circumcision==
"Male circumcision is harmful because it excises healthy tissue and permanently destroys beneficial, protective, immunological, sexual, and sensory physiological functions. Male circumcision also causes psychological problems that tend to perpetuate the cycle of abuse. Male circumcision is a costly diversion of medical resources away from beneficial services. Male circumcision violates legal rights, [[human rights]], and ethical standards. Finally, we must remember that males are the more vulnerable and sensitive of the two genders and, therefore, deserve the greater degree of protection from traumatic, invasive, injurious,and unnecessary surgery. For all of these reasons the non-therapeutic circumcision of boys should not be performed and the [[genital integrity]] of all children should be respected and protected."<ref name="hill2007">{{REFjournal
|last=Hill
|first=George
|init=G
|author-link=George Hill
|title=The case against circumcision
|journal=Journal of Men's Health and Gender
|date=2007
|volume=4
|issue=3
|pages=318-23
|url=https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&doi=04ace5046cc27f01b8fbe4aa359c059778983912
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|accessdate=2025-04-22
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{{SEEALSO}}
* [[Periah]]
* [[Religion and culture]]
* [[Surrogate_consent]]
{{LINKS}}
* {{REFweb
|url=https://www.esquire.com/lifestyle/health/a64713883/is-circumcision-good-bad/
|title=The Case Against Circumcision
|last=Raab
|first=Scott
|init=
|author-link=Scott Raab
|publisher=Esquire
|date=2025-05-12
|accessdate=2025-05-19
}}
{{REF}}