HE STILL HIRES OUT!
December 29, 2013
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Rosenberg,
is being sued because he cut off a baby’s penis during circumcision. The
ceremony was performed at The Tree Of Life Synagogue in Squirrel Hill earlier
this year on April 28.
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Though it is
clearly a medical procedure, using medical instruments, one does not require
any sort of training or license in order to cut a third of the skin off of the
genitals of an infant child.
From the Daily Mail:
The Huffington Post reported that the parents have remained anonymous to protect the identity of their son.
The newborn
baby boy had to be rushed to Children’s Hospital where doctors performed an emergency
microsurgery to reattach the dismembered penis. The
delicate surgery took about eight hours long.
CBS reported that the boy needed six blood
transfusions and was hospitalized for two months. He also had leech therapy
during his recovery.
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The
procedure was described as "successful."
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The baby’s
microsurgery was reported ‘successful’, but whether or not the baby will have
problems later on in life is still unknown.
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Despite the
gruesome incident, the rabbi still practices as a mohel.
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CBS spoke
with attorney David Llewellyn who handles cases pertaining to botched
circumcisions by either a mohel or a doctor.
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He spoke of
how Bris services are usually unregulated.
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‘There’s
virtually no regulation of this any place in the United States that I know of,’
Llewellyn said. ‘I think the government probably should require some sort of
training if this is going to be done.’
‘Your average pediatric urologist probably spends about 20 percent of his or her time repairing children who have been circumcised,’ Llewellyn told CBS.
According to
Rosenberg’s website, ‘The Bris must be performed by a Jewish person who
understands, upholds, and practices the tenets of the Jewish religion, and is
specially trained to function as a mohel.’
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Rosenberg
claims he is well trained in circumcision and calls this case a ‘tragic
accident.’
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He also
claims that receiving a Bris in a hospital may not be recognized under Jewish
law.
But the slip-up could have easily condemned the baby to a life without a penis.
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"Sometimes, it doesn't always work," plastic surgeon Joe Losee said to KDKA. "When you're reattaching a portion where you include nerves, sometimes the nerves don't heal well beyond where you reattached it. So there are limitations for sure."
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The American Board of Ritual Circumcision recognizes Rabbi Rosenberg as a certified mohel, a Jewish person who upholds the tenets of the Jewish religion and is trained to perform the bris, according to his website.
But the slip-up could have easily condemned the baby to a life without a penis.
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"Sometimes, it doesn't always work," plastic surgeon Joe Losee said to KDKA. "When you're reattaching a portion where you include nerves, sometimes the nerves don't heal well beyond where you reattached it. So there are limitations for sure."
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The American Board of Ritual Circumcision recognizes Rabbi Rosenberg as a certified mohel, a Jewish person who upholds the tenets of the Jewish religion and is trained to perform the bris, according to his website.
The Daily
Mail, surprisingly, goes on to explain the problem of penis-sucking rabbis.
Mayor
Bloomberg has spoken out about medical circumcision following 11 herpes
outbreaks in 2001 in New York in an ultra-Orthodox Jewish circumcision ritual
called metzitzah b’peh ~ or oral suction ~ in which the mohel puts his mouth
directly on the newborn’s circumcised penis and sucks out the blood.
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The mohel
had transmitted herpes to the children.
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Bloomberg
wrote an open letter to mohel’s asking them to move away from the ceremony.
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Can you
imagine hiring a rabbi to cut a third of the skin off of your baby’s penis
knowing that he had already lopped one off?
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