The mother argued that the authority to decide on this matter belongs exclusively in family court. But the rabbinical judges, Rabbis Michael Amos, Sheur Pardes and Ariel Yanai, rejected the woman’s argument and determined that when a couple is in a dispute over the treatment of their son, the dispute may be resolve either in family or in rabbinical court.
The mother’s request was rejected and the court ordered her to have the circumcision be performed within seven days, or suffer a financial penalty.
As long as religious courts are entitled to overrule a mother's consent and force a child to undergo an unwanted and unneeded removal of part of his genitals, the task force and MKs are going to have a very difficult time convincing anyone that circumcision of underage boys is anything other than a violation of the physical integrity of the child.
She argued that the
authority to decide on this matter belongs exclusively in family court.
But the rabbinical judges, Rabbis Michael Amos, Sheur Pardes and Ariel
Yanai, rejected the woman’s argument and determined that when a couple
is in a dispute over the treatment of their son, the dispute may be
resolve either in family or in rabbinical court.
Read more at: http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/israeli-rabbinical-court-forcing-divorcee-to-circumcise-son/2013/11/07/
Read more at: http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/israeli-rabbinical-court-forcing-divorcee-to-circumcise-son/2013/11/07/
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ReplyDeleteDo you think that there is space to elaborate a bit more on this? The MKs are going to argue that circumcision is central to Jewish identity to the point where a parent can/shall be forced to perform it on a child when the other parent requests it. Basically, "keeping the marker of Jewish identity" is put in front of the child's health and physical well-being independently what the unconsenting parent thinks about it. This will be a tough sell to the Council of Europe.
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