There’s a disturbing practice in the Ultra-Orthodox Jewish culture known as metzitzah b’peh in which a rabbi (mohel) sucks the blood from a baby boy who has just been circumcised. I repeat: The rabbi sucks the baby boy’s penis post-circumcision… because religion.
If that wasn’t disgusting enough, some of the mohels have had herpes simplex, passing the virus on to the children. Since 2000, more than a dozen infants have contracted herpes in this manner and at least two have died.
Last Sunday, 50-year-old Esti Weinstein was found dead inside her car near the city of Ashdod in Israel. She had left behind a suicide note that read, “In this city I gave birth to my daughters, in this city I..
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