Well @Bubu said he wanted TWS articles so I volunteered as tribute 😂
The Hebrew term metzitzah b’peh describes a ritual practiced by some ultra-Orthodox Jewish circumcisers. The procedure involves the Orthodox-Jewish mohel putting his mouth on the infant’s freshly-circumcised penis and sucking away the blood. Metzitzah b’pehs have resulted in babies ending up with communicable diseases like hepatitis. This practice is as unorthodox and unhygienic as it sounds.
Since 2000, metzitzah b’pehs have been responsible for at least thirteen cases of herpes transmission — including two resulting in the death of the child, and two more in which the boy suffered brain damage.
One of the victims is described as:
A baby boy has been infected with neonatal herpes following a Jewish ritual circumcision in New York — tied to a controversial rite that involves the direct application of the ritual circumciser’s mouth to the baby’s genitals to suction blood from the wound.
The baby was treated for a genital rash five days after he was circumcised, according to a January 28 health alert issued by New York City’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. The department attributed the rash to the controversial circumcision technique, known as metzitzah b’peh, or MBP, which some ultra-Orthodox mohels, or ritual circumcisers, say is an essential component of the ancient religious ritual.
The Jewish Daily Forward adds that
The city’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene has tried to warn parents of the risks of MBP, which is particularly prevalent among the city’s ultra-Orthodox Jews. In January, 2013, the city instituted a regulation that forced mohels to get written consent from parents before performing the rite.
But ultra-Orthodox groups say that MBP is safe and many mohels refuse to comply with the regulation.
Since the regulation was enforced, four infants have contracted the disease.
Two years ago, the Bloomberg administration decreed that parents wishing to have a metzitzah performed must sign a consent form saying they are aware of the risks. Even that weak, inadequate measure met with vehement opposition from ultra-Orthodox leaders, who consider it an unwarranted government violation of their religious freedom.
In late 2012 the ultra-Orthodox umbrella group, Agudath Israel of America, along with a handful of ultra-Orthodox rabbis and mohels launched a lawsuit challenging the legality of the forms, which they say is a violation of free speech.
The case comes four weeks after news organizations reported that a mohel in Pittsburgh, Rabbi Mordechai Rosenberg, had accidentally sliced off a baby’s penis during a standard bris.
Despite all these incidents in 2014 about two-thirds of boys born in New York City’s Hasidic communities are circumcised in the oral suction manner, according to Rabbi David Zwiebel, executive vice president of Agudath Israel of America.
So I didn’t per say write the article and more like did a collage of different articles while changing some wording 😂
If you want to check out the main original article it’s here
Ps- don’t ask how or why I found that article please XD
