It's 1938 again: German rabbi faces criminal charges for performing circumcisions
A German rabbi (who is not in the picture above) is facing criminal charges for performing circumcisions in Germany. He is the first person to be charged since a German court in Cologne ruled in June that religious circumcisions constitute illegal bodily harm. This is from the first link (Hat Tip: Captain. H). A doctor from Hesse filed a criminal complaint against Rabbi David Goldberg, who serves in the community of Hof, in Upper Franconia (northern Bavaria), according to the Juedische Allgemeine weekly newspaper. The chief prosecutor of Hof confirmed that charges had been filed against the rabbi. The charges are based on the controversial decision of a Cologne district court, which ruled in June that circumcisions for religious reasons constitute illegal bodily harm to newborn babies.Read the whole thing.
“I am shocked,” said Cologne Rabbi Yaron Engelmayer, co-chairman of the national umbrella group of Orthodox rabbis in Germany, in a first reaction to the report. This marks the first time that a court in the Federal Republic of Germany is investigating a rabbi for performing a religious ritual, Engelmayer told the paper.
Goldberg, a qualified mohel (ritual circumciser) who says he has performed more than 3,000 circumcisions, was informed about the criminal charges against him by journalists, the paper said.
Born in Jerusalem, the 64-year-old has been the rabbi of Hof since 1997. Before World War II, about 3,000 Jews lived in Hof. Today, the community counts about 400 members.
I should probably explain the 1938 quip in the title. The Nazis - may their name be obliterated - started out by banning ritual slaughter, circumcision and other Jewish rites as being 'cruel' to someone or something. It looks like modern Germany hasn't changed a whole lot since then, has it?
I also see that Germany allows people with no standing (like a 'doctor from Hesse') to file a criminal complaint against a private party. Yet another argument for the American legal system (Israel allows people without standing to file high court appeals - search 'standing' or 'justiciability' in the archives).
And it looks like another European Jewish community ought to be making aliya....
Labels: anti-Semitism, circumcision, Germany
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 9:15 PM
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But yet I'm positive that female circumcision done by Muslims will be allowed..... or no one will say anything against it.
I'll bet no "German doctor" would dare file a complaint against a Muslim carrying out a circumcision.
Germany = Siemens... equiping the Iranian slaughterers of Jews. As well as the Iraqi chemical monsters... where are the rest of those "non-existent" WMDs, anyway? Maybe in Syria or Lebanon or distributed to jihadis everywhere. And Siemens, leaving swaths of hazardous waste on their sites wherever they go...
Perhaps we should have wiped Germany off the face of the Earth back in 1945.
A time machine?
This goes along with Jonah Goldberg's thesis that Nazism was the natural outgrowth of progressivism. Jonah presses things too far, but as we see here, there is a thread.
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