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|Title=Count actress Alicia Silverstone among those Jews advocating against circumcision. | |Title=Count actress Alicia Silverstone among those Jews advocating against circumcision. | ||
|Text=I was raised Jewish, so the second my parents found out that they had a male grandchild, they wanted to know when we’d be having a bris (the Jewish circumcision ceremony traditionally performed 8 days after a baby is born),” Silverstone writes. “When I said we weren’t having one, my dad got a bit worked up. But my thinking was: If little boys were supposed to have their penises ‘fixed,’ did that mean we were saying that God made the body imperfect? | |Text=I was raised Jewish, so the second my parents found out that they had a male grandchild, they wanted to know when we’d be having a [[Brit Milah|bris]] (the Jewish circumcision ceremony traditionally performed 8 days after a baby is born),” Silverstone writes. “When I said we weren’t having one, my dad got a bit worked up. But my thinking was: If little boys were supposed to have their penises ‘fixed,’ did that mean we were saying that God made the body imperfect? | ||
|Author=Alicia Silverstone | |Author=Alicia Silverstone | ||
|Source=Times of Israel | |Source=Times of Israel | ||