Articles available through the Asher Library

• Amiel, Barbara. It's not about the rights of the child.
  Maclean's 125.39 (2012): 12-13.
• Berman, Daniel S. Is Metzitzah bePeh Dangerous?
  Dialogue (5772/2011-2012): 12-31.
• Bleich, J. David. Circumcision:  The Current Controversy.
  Tradition 33.4 (2000): 45-69.
• -----. Hypospadias and Circumcision. Tradition 18.3 (1980): 295-303.
• -----. Laser Circumcision. Tradition 43.3 (2010): 89-109.
• Chao, Tiffany. Cutting Out Circumcision Could Cost Billions: Study,
  at abcnews.go.com/blogs (August 21, 2012).
• Conley, Mikaela. Circumcisions may help reduce the risk of prostrate cancer . . . ., at abcnews.go.com/Health (March 12, 2012).
• Duffin, Christian. Neonatal circumcision: Healthy practice or barbaric procedure? Nursing Children &Young People 23.8 (2011): 6-7.
• Gesundheit, B., Grisaru-Soen, G., et al. Neonatal genital Herpes simplex virus type 1infection after Jewish ritual circumcision: Modern medicine and religious tradition. Pediatrics 114(2) (2004): 259-263
• Heinemann, Rabbi Yosef. Clarifying the tradition of MetzitzahB'peh. Kashrus Magazine 25.5 (2005): 22-26.
• Lerner, Michael. No to the proposed legal ban on circumcision. Tikkun 26.3 (2011): 16-17.
• Neff, David. Criminalizing circumcision. Christianity Today 55.9 (2011): 60.
• Odd Bedfellows. Economist 404.8802 (2012): 57-58.
• Oppenheimer, Avi. Jaundice and Brit Milah: A halachic response to modern medicine. Journal of Halacha and Contemporary Society XLV (2003): 27-48.
• Poliak, Daniel, Metsitsah Be-Peh, Nineteenth Century New York Jewry, and the Board of Health. Tradition 44.3 (2011): 39-52.
• Pollack, Miriam. Circumcision: Identity, gender, and power. Tikkun 26.3 (2011): 97-104.
• Reichman, Edward and Rosner, Fred. The Use of Anesthesia in Circumcision:  A Re-Evaluation of the Halakhic Sources.
  Tradition 34.3 (2000): 6-26.
• Shields, Yehudi Pesach. The Making of Metzizah — 1972. Tradition 13.2 (1972): 36-48.
• Sprecher, Shlomo. Mezizah Be-Peh — Therapeutic touch or Hippocratic vestige? Hakirah 3 (2006): 15-66.
• Zenilman, Jonathan and Stanberry, Lawrence. The Dangers of Metzizah BePeh. Dialogue 5773/2012-2013.

Books by Guest Speakers

• Resnicoff, Steven H. Understanding Jewish Law. New Providence, NJ: LexisNexis, c2012.

Books available in the Asher Library

• Glick, Leonard B. Marked in your Flesh: Circumcision from Ancient Judea to Modern America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
• Gollaher, David. Circumcision: A History of the World’s Most Controversial Surgery. New York: Basic Books, 2000.    
• Greenberg, Lorna, and Susan Terkel. The Circumcision Decision: An Unbiased Guide for Parents. Cleveland/Akron, OH: Carrot Seed Publishing LLC, 2012.
• Silverman, Eric Kline. From Abraham to America: A History of Jewish Circumcision. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., c2006.       

Videos available in the Asher Library

• Cut: Slicing through the Myth of Circumcision.
  Dir. Eliyahu Ungar-Sargon. Chicago, IL: White Letter Productions, 2007.
• The Eighth Day. Dir. Yehuda Wurtzel.
  Teaneck, NJ: Ergo Media; New York, NY: Jewish Media Fund, 2005.
• L.A. Mohel. Dir. Ilene Gilbaum, Fred Kogen, Yehuda Lebovics, et al.
  Los Angeles, CA: S.I.: Filmmakers Library, c1999.

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