By MOLLY MCFLY I am a young woman who is proud to be deeply invested in the movement to defeat institutionalized circumcision. However, as I have previously confessed, I once agreed with and actually defended this unnecessary surgery and its imposition on non-consenting infants. Since I used to be pro-cutting and am now adamantly opposed to…
Some young Jewish men thinking ahead to fatherhood have decided theywill reject circumcision for their sons while also embracing their Jewishness. By AL RUBENSTEIN I am 21 years old, Jewish, and opposed to circumcision. I attend college in Indiana. I grew up in a small Southern town where my family was one of a handful…
By REBECCA WALD Jewish mother and actress Mayim Bialik has just released her new book on attachment parenting titled Beyond the Sling. I applaud her work in bringing sound natural parenting principles to a broad audience. Mayim’s down-to-earth and straightforward exposition of attachment parenting will resonate with many of today’s parents, and parents-to-be, who are…
Also click here for my recent post on Mayim Bialik’s new attachment parenting book Beyond the Sling.By REBECCA WALD Mayim Bialik “wearing” her son. More than twenty years ago, actress Mayim Bialik changed the direction of my life forever (and I hers) in a big way. So, when I learned of a recent brouhaha raised…