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Anti-circumcision push worries American rabbis

June 11, 2015 09:20
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A court battle in Florida between a mother and father over the circumcision of their son has sparked a US-wide debate on circumcision and fuelled campaigns against the brit milah.

A legal fight that has lasted several years over the circumcision of non-Jewish, four-year-old Chase Nebus-Hironumus recently hit the headlines when the court sided with his father, who wants the procedure to happen.

However, anti-brit campaigners - including many Jews - held up Chase's mother as a martyr in their cause.

Jonathan Friedman, a 27-year-old anti-circumcision activist who grew up in an Orthodox home in Brooklyn, predicted that the Florida case could have a trickle-down effect. "A shift is happening within the Jewish community in the United States," he said.