I can't believe it took me this long to find out about this story, And more importantly, To find out that the traditional method of circumcisions involves a Rabbi sucking a child's penis.
City health officials are investigating the death of a baby boy who was one of three infants to contract herpes after a rabbi circumcised them.
Ten days after Rabbi Yitzhok Fischer performed religious circumcisions on twins last October, one died of herpes and the other tested positive for the virus, according to a complaint filed by the health department in Manhattan Supreme Court.
And if that wasn't bad enough....
Under Jewish law, a mohel — someone who performs circumcisions — draws blood from the circumcision wound. Most mohels do it by hand with a suction device, but Fischer uses a practice rare outside strict Orthmohelsroups where he uses his mouth to draw blood after cutting the foreskin.
