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Hello Friends of Bruchim, We’re delighted to bring you an update on the exciting things we’ve been doing this summer, and how you can get involved! Community Check-In — September 2 Looking for connection, encouragement, or answers to your questions? Join us for an open conversation and Q&A after our next Bruchim leadership meeting. Date: Tuesday,… The post Bruchim Summer Update 2025 appeared first…
August 14, 2024 — In 2022, Brendon Marotta, who once explored the circumcision controversy in an independent film, self-published a book and wrote blog posts expressing his opinions about Jewish people related to circumcision. Both Jewish and non-Jewish individuals publicly criticized his writings. Subsequently, Marotta filed a lawsuit claiming he had been defamed, suing only… The post Lawsuit…
April 5, 2024 — Bruchim, the nonprofit that is shattering taboos around Jewish circumcision, has launched a podcast to explore the practice through a critical lens. Founded in 2021, Bruchim supports non-circumcising Jews while encouraging synagogues and other Jewish institutions to accept the choice not to circumcise. This 10-episode debut season of The Bruchim Podcast tells… The post The Bruchim…
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July 28, 2022 — New York Times bestselling novelist Gary Shteyngart (Our Country Friends, 2021) and Bruchim’s Max Buckler appear together as guests on Evolve, the podcast of Judaism’s Reconstructionist Movement. Shteyngart and Buckler’s friendship began on social media after Shteyngart published a New Yorker essay describing his own botched bris. Buckler, a circumcision critic and… The post Evolve…
March 2, 2022 — While there is no single definition of hate speech, the term generally describes public discourse (spoken or in print) that attempts to vilify, scapegoat, humiliate, or incite hatred against people or groups based on race, religion, ethnicity, country of origin, biological sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, and so on. Freedom… The post Bruchim’s Stance on Hate Speech &…
February 1, 2022, BY Max Buckler — As a founding member of Bruchim, the new Jewish nonprofit advocating for Jews who hold critical views of brit milah, I seek to build bridges between those who continue to practice the traditional ritual and the growing number of Jews who have come to believe, as I do,… The post Be Honest About the Bris: A Jewish Call for Greater Integrity appeared first on…
