Jewish Intactivist Miriam Pollack: "That which is not ethical, cannot be spiritual."

Submitted by Matt on Fri, 2014-09-05 17:51

Article here. Excerpt:

'Miriam Pollack, MA, is one of the leading Jewish Intactivist scholars. A Jewish mother and active Jew, she was chosen as Intact America’s Intactivst of the Month. Pollack has written for Tikkun, and been interviewed in BeyondTheBris.com. She has led talks with Eli Ungar Sargon, an Orthodox raised Intactivist on the subject. She is part of a group of Intactivist Jews who've made moral arguments for a shift in Jewish interpretation of the bris.

Pollack has lectured on Jewish Intactivism at conferences as early as the 1990's. She is one of more than 200 Bris Shalom celebrants, Jewish leaders who will hold a bris covenant ritual for intact Jewish boys. Pollack visits Israel frequently, and has also helped to connect Jewish Intactivists in Israel with the American movement. She has joined some Rabbis in making ethical and moral cases for an Intactivist interpretation of the Jewish covenant.'

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believes that male circumcision exists as a means of sexism against women. Yes, you read that right.

She wrote an essay a few years back which I read which had my blood boiling. On top of the first ridiculous assertion, she goes on to say that it's sexist against women because it's designed to make boys hate their mothers. She wrote the essay as though fathers have the final say in these matters, and mothers never agree to circumcise their sons. It seemed like an attempt to exonerate all mothers for their complicity in the act and shift the blame wholly onto men. That's why I, quite frankly, don't care for her.

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Submitted by xtrnl on Sat, 2014-09-06 14:18

Still, no one'll ever always interpret things the same way as you. But I'd've probably felt the same way.

Do you have a link to that article?

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Submitted by Matt on Sat, 2014-09-06 17:32

Here's the essay:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/miriam-pollack/circumcision-identity-gen_b_1132896.html

Personally, I felt like this was a male victim-blaming fest spliced with a twisting of male suffering into female suffering.

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Submitted by xtrnl on Sun, 2014-09-07 16:30