I’m not going to get involved with any of that except one point which in Europe and America has become an important issue.

Circumcision.

For Jews, this should not be an issue.
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Circumcision of boys at 8 days old (or later if there is a health problem), is mandated by Torah in this Parsha. It goes all the way back to the story of Abraham and his sons. 3)

It is considered by our Sages to be an act that symbolically completes creation and makes us a partner (though clearly minor) with Hashem while bringing this child into the Jewish nation. For 4000 years, our people did this, and for 3400 years as a Mitzvah from Torah. 4)

Muslims follow the custom as well, because of the same story of Abraham (Ibrahim), today doing the procedure anywhere between newborn and age 13, doing it as a matter of faith and inclusion.
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There has always been opposition to Circumcision from those who opposed us and who wanted to wipe out our religion and nationhood. The Greeks ridiculed the practice. The Romans did as well.
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The antipathy to the practice, using ridicule and worse, was quite common throughout Christendom at the urging of the Churches, all the way to Nazi Germany and the Holocaust.
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And throughout the ages, from the time of Greek domination of Eretz Yisrael, there have been Jews who chose to ignore the practice in order to conform to the style of the conquerors and to assimilate to their ways,
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often these assimilated Jews joining those who despised us in ridiculing our customs.

Today, the debate is a bit different. Excluding for the moment those, especially in Europe who talk of banning Circumcision because of their anti-Semitism and antipathy to Muslims... 9)

in their countries, we need to look at the groups of allegedly well-meaning people, especially well-meaning Jews, who have decided to abandon the practice for their children - because they base their position on claiming that ... 10)

(1) The practice serves no useful purpose, (2) That it is old fashioned, (3) and that it may even be child abuse, and then there are those that say (4). the child should be allowed to choose for himself... 11)

(when of course he would be an adult and the procedure would be very painful). These people claim they have scientific evidence and humanitarian interests backing their position. But, do they? Actually they do not. 12)

The facts, scientific facts, support the belief that Circumcision has positive health consequences throughout life both for the circumcised male and his female partner. Not just the issue of easier and more effective cleanliness - which can be a big point,
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but in terms of reducing infections and diseases but also the spread of diseases. Ask yourselves why the rates of cervical cancer and other diseases in Israel and Muslim nations is a small fraction of that in Europe or America, and 14)

why the rate for the disease in America is half that of Europe. (Half the males in the US are circumcised), and those are just a couple examples. 15)

But for us Jews, we have a choice. We can make the argument in favor based on all the scientific evidence or we can keep it simple and acknowledge that this is part of what we are, our heritage, our culture, our belief system, as instructed by Torah. 16)

The practice is a part of who and what we are, what we have been for 4000 years, complying with what HaShem wants us to be, a practice that completes our creation.

Either way, we have an obligation to the next generations to do the right thing as did our ancestors." 17)