Finally!

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Finally! I have been avoiding this subject. I wrote a lot about it in my drog some years ago and so I am reluctant to revisit it. But it seems to me that the apparently innocent quote above (below, blogwise) might actually contain 'errors' of this or that sort and that therefore it could be a legitimate subject for commentary. For example:

Edward Wallerstein is Jewish, and can be forgiven for 'overlooking' the obvious Jewish origin of newborn circumcision. Indeed, he is to be praised for whatever candor he has, as a Jew, been able to muster on the subject. I see him as a journalist who is torn between two 'opposing' ideas: Judaism and Americanism. Wallerstein has 'discovered the truth' and it is ugly with respect to his two most cherished values, Judaism and Democracy. Furthermore, Wallerstein is aware (however dimly) that the circumcision of America has diminished 'national pleasure' in a most substantial way and he wants to 'right the wrongs' which national circumcision might have inflicted on the population. I like that.