‘Anti-vaxxer’ parents mad at mohel for ‘barbaric’ practice

‘Anti-vaxxer’ parents mad at mohel for ‘barbaric’ practice

September 12, 2017 Opinion

Humour column: Little did the parents know that just as the mohel was cutting off part of their newborn son, he was also committing an invasive medical procedure so controversial, so upsetting to the boy’s parents, that they tried to have the mohel arrested on the spot.

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