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I first read about this in a Christopher Hitchens article, and figured it might just be a drunken hallucination, but no, it’s real. As if regular circumcision wasn’t bad enough, the ultra-Orthodox version apparently includes a practice called metzitzah b’peh, or oral suction, in which the mohel sucks the blood off of the infant’s penis after ( Read more... )

“Hey, remember that movie, The Frisco Kid? They should’ve called it Haftorah, Will Travel.”

David Bernstein, of the Volokh Conspiracy, quotes from the April 26th issue of People Magazine (which isn’t online):
She’s got the deejay blasting Beyonce and a computerized light show. She has nearly 100 friends crammed into Manhattan’s ritzy Bryant Park Grill. She’s got the gift table groaning with Tiffany bags and guests greeting her dad at the ( Read more... )