Jenny Goodman
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Jenny Goodman, MBChB[a 1], M.A.[a 2], is a British medical doctor, psychoanalyst, and mother. She served on the faculties of the Fourth and Fifth International Symposia.
She appeared in Victor Schonfeld's ground-breaking documentary, "It's A Boy!", shown on British television in September 1995. Since then, she has been challenging circumcision both within the Jewish community and in the wider world. She has appeared twice on BBC national television, spoken on several radio programs, and has had articles published in national newspapers.
Citation
| “ | I am confident that my people have such an abundance of life-enhancing, life-affirming and mind-opening traditions, that our identity and sense of cultural self-heed will happily survive our outgrowing of circumcision, a cruel relic which has always felt to me like an aberration at the heart of my religion. – Dr. Jenny Goodman (Challenging Circumcision: A Jewish Perspective)[1] |
Publications
Goodman J. Jewish circumcision: an alternative perspective. BJU Int. January 1999; 83(1): 22-7. PMID. DOI. Retrieved 29 June 2021.
Goodman, Jenny (23 October 2011)."We're made in God's image, so why change perfection?", Independent. Retrieved 30 June 2021.
See also
External links
Official website. Retrieved 30 June 2021.- Facebook page. Retrieved 30 June 2021.
Abbreviations
- ↑
Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery
, Wikipedia. Retrieved 13 October 2021. (Latin: medicinae baccalaureus, baccalaureus chirurgiae; abbreviated in many ways, most commonly MBBS, but also MB ChB, BMBS, MB BCh, MB BChir, and BM BCh.) - ↑
Master of Arts
, Wikipedia. Retrieved 14 June 2021.
References
- ↑ Goodman, Jenny (August 1996).
Challenging Circumcision: A Jewish Perspective
. Retrieved 30 June 2021.