Following Rao’s previous posting on the topic, the comic book Foreskin Man has been declared anti-semitic by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), reports Comic Book Resources’ Robot 6 news blog:
This is an advocacy campaign taken to a new low. This is a sensitive, serious issue where good people can disagree and which the Jewish community feels is an assault on its values and traditions going back thousands of years and centered in the Hebrew Bible. It is one thing to debate it, is another thing to degrade it. “Foreskin Man,” with its grotesque anti-Semitic imagery and themes, reaches a new low and is disrespectful and deeply offensive.
The ADL’s complete statement on Foreskin Man can be found here.
Some Jews feel the time has come for a symbolic bris without surgery.
Jewish Groups for Genital Integrity
* Jews for the Rights of the Child http://www.jewsfortherightsofthechild.org/
* Brit Shalom Celebrants by Mark D. Reiss, M.D. http://www.circumstitions.com/Jewish-shalom.html
* Questioning Circumcision: A Jewish Perspective by Ron Goldman, Ph.D. http://www.jewishcircumcision.org
* Beyond the Bris: Jewish Parenting Blog http://www.beyondthebris.com
* Israeli Association Against Genital Mutilation ( http://www.britmila.org.il )