Woman fined $140 a day for refusing to circumcise son

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An Israeli woman is being fined NIS 500 ($140) every day for refusing to circumcise her one-year-old-son, Israel’s Channel 2 reported today. There is no sweeping legal requirement for Jews in Israel to circumcise their children, but the woman is undergoing a divorce process at the Haifa Rabbinical Court, and her husband has appealed to the court to pressure the woman into circumcising the son.

“I’ve been exposed to a lot of information about circumcision and decided not to proceed with the circumcision,” the woman told Channel 2. “I have no right to cut at his genitals and to maim him, and the court has no authority to force me to.” Her lawyer also said the rabbinical court does not have the authority to enforce the procedure, but the secular family court would. The woman went on to add she was unemployed, and cannot afford to pay the fine, which already adds up to NIS 2,500 ($700). She said her husband originally had no objections to avoiding circumcision when the child was born, but changed his mind during the divorce process.

The rabbinical judges in the case said in their decision the woman was opposing the circumcision as a means to bringing her husband back to her. They also referred explicitly to the growing debate around ritual male circumcision elsewhere in the world, and voiced their fear of the precedent that could be created by a Jewish Israeli woman allowed not to circumcise her son.

“We have witnessed for some time now public and legal struggles against the brit milah in many countries in Europe and in the United States,” the judges wrote. “The public in Israel has stood as one man [sic] against these trends, seeing them as yet another aspect of displays of anti-Semitism that must be combatted. How will the world react if even here the issue of circumcision is given to the discretion of any person, according to their own beliefs?”

Religious courts in Israel hold complete sway over all matrimonial issues, including divorce. An appeal to the Haifa District Court by the woman was turned down, and the woman said the only resort left now is an appeal to the Supreme Court.

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[88m3]

good

 

[Remote]

 

[DEAD7]

 

[Brown_Pride]

barbaric asz custom if you ask me.

 

[Dada]

Terribly unjust.

 

[Kritic]

worse than sharia law.

 

[The Real]

It's because divorce and marriage courts in Israel = heavily religious, despite most of the rest of the legal system being secular. According to the article, it's because there's a custody battle over the kid, and the father recently changed his mind and said he wanted the kid circumcised after all, whereas the mother didn't. The court ordered the mother to do it or face the fine, and then, in a side note, the judge ranted about how circumcision is essential and not doing it is "anti-Semitic."

 

[DStyles]

I will never circumcise my son, what kind of dumb shyt is this

 

[NZA]

apparently circumcision is on the decline now in both the USA and Israel, these fundamentalists are shook and probably feel like they cant afford to give in anymore or their way of life is going to die

also, the kid will be banned from temples and other holy sites, the decision to not cut him might imply that he will be a secular person which i doubt they want any more of in the country

 

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It's because divorce and marriage courts in Israel = heavily religious, despite most of the rest of the legal system being secular. According to the article, it's because there's a custody battle over the kid, and the father recently changed his mind and said he wanted the kid circumcised after all, whereas the mother didn't. The court ordered the mother to do it or face the fine, and then, in a side note, the judge ranted about how circumcision is essential and not doing it is "anti-Semitic."

Breh, you just basically summarized the article and didn't really add anything here.

 

[Type Username Here]

"Let's hold down this infant baby boy and disfigure his penis without proper consent because thousands of years ago God told someone to do it as a show of loyalty"

 

[Techniec]

im circumsized and my kids will be as well...i mean, it just is what it is i guess

 

[The Real]

Breh, you just basically summarized the article and didn't really add anything here.

Just posting a summary of the article because I'm relatively sure the usual anti-Semites will show up and not actually read it, and just look at the title before starting on their usual path.

 

[Type Username Here]

Just posting a summary of the article because I'm relatively sure the usual anti-Semites will show up and not actually read it, and just look at the title before starting on their usual path.