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== History == | == History == | ||
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 | 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, Texas 90 miles east of Houston, Texas, and the only three mohels in Houston at the time were already booked.<ref name="HoustonChronicle"/> | ||
Mintz began to keep count of his circumcisions 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 aims 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"/> | Mintz began to keep count of his circumcisions 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 aims 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"/> | ||
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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"/> | 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"/> | 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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[[Category:Physician]] | [[Category:Physician]] | ||
[[Category:Religious conviction]] | [[Category:Religious conviction]] | ||
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[[Category:USA]] | [[Category:USA]] | ||