{"id":1604,"date":"2011-06-09T13:18:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-09T13:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beyondthebris.com\/circumcision-and-change\/"},"modified":"2011-06-09T13:18:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-09T13:18:00","slug":"circumcision-and-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beyondthebris.com\/circumcision-and-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Circumcision and Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;\">\n<table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jillstanek.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/frances-kissling.jpg\" style=\"clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"200\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jillstanek.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/frances-kissling.jpg\" width=\"134\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">Francis Kissling<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px;\">Francis Kissling has written an excellent piece, \u201cCircumcision and Change,\u201d in her blog \u201cOn Faith,\u201d that is part<i> The Washington Post<\/i> online. She states in part: \u201cIt may be time for Jews to look more closely at circumcision in the context of their own modern view of sexuality, gender and reproduction. Just as we now have Bat Mitzvahs as well as Bar Mitzvahs could not the entire ritual of circumcision be transformed to honor both boys and girls, to eliminate pain and move from the pelvic zone into a more spiritual and holistic understanding of our sexuality?\u201d I do disagree with Kissling&#8217;s assessment of the medical benefits of circumcision. Kissling is a catholic feminist and visiting scholar at the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania. To read the full text of her post click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/on-faith\/post\/circumcision-and-change\/2011\/06\/08\/AGF8UvLH_blog.html\">here<\/a>. &nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Francis Kissling Francis Kissling has written an excellent piece, \u201cCircumcision and Change,\u201d in her blog \u201cOn Faith,\u201d that is part The Washington Post online. She states in part: \u201cIt may be time for Jews to look more closely at circumcision in the context of their own modern view of sexuality, gender and reproduction. Just as&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Circumcision and Change - Beyond the Bris<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondthebris.com\/circumcision-and-change\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Circumcision and Change - Beyond the Bris\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Francis Kissling Francis Kissling has written an excellent piece, \u201cCircumcision and Change,\u201d in her blog \u201cOn Faith,\u201d that is part The Washington Post online. 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