San Francisco to Ban Brit-Mila! 

The Lisa Kampner Hebrew Academy is fighting for Jewish Survival. We are the only school in San Francisco that offers Torah education for elementary and high school Jewish boys and girls.

Now San Francisco wants to ban Brit-Mila (Circumcision). This measure is a threat to our school and to the entire Jewish community.

Our students are from emigre families from the former Soviet Union, where they lived under Communism. Many arrivesd in the United States without ever having had Brit-Mila

Three years ago we gave 13 High School boys Brit -Mila. Last year alone, we gave 4 boys Brit Mila. According to this new law, not only is Brit-Mila forbidden for any male under 18,but also the Rabbi preforming the Brit-Mila will recieve a ONE YEAR jail sentence for EACH Brit-Mila he performs.

We have 50,000 Russian Jews in San Francisco Bay Area, and if Rabbi Lipner will be successful in arranging 25 Brit-Mila, he will face 25 years in Jail along with a fine of $25,000.

Nurses are already telling unsuspecting Jewish Parents not to circumcise their babies because, according to the nurses, it is a cruel and uncalled for operation.

Please note the vicious two comic books featuring the villainous characters called "Monster Moel" depicted as a bearded Orthodox Jew with a evil salacious grin. This cartoon was addressed in the June 24, 2011 edition of the JewishVoice.

Link to the Jewishvoice edition(Page 28)

The Proposal is on the ballot and will be voted on in November! If the law passes, any boy under 18 will not be able to have Brit-Mila performed in San Francisco. We simply cannot let this happen!

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Circumcision ban talk raises hackles of SoCal congressman

When Brad Sherman heard that there were anti-circumcision comic books circulating that depict mohels as sinister villains, he was incensed.

And he decided to do something about it. That something was writing an Act of Congress.

Earlier this week, Sherman announced he will introduce into the House of Representatives the Religious and Parental Rights Defense Act, a bill that would prevent municipalities such as San Francisco from banning circumcision.

Sherman is the Democratic congressman from California’s 27th district, located in the San Fernando Valley. He is also Jewish, and strongly opposed to the proposed circumcision ban that will appear on the San Francisco ballot this fall.

He had been following the effort to criminalize circumcision in the city (the proposed ban allows for no religious exceptions), as well as a similar, now-aborted attempt to ban the practice in Santa Monica.

“I’m sitting around reading the paper,” Sherman told j., “when I read of this proposal in San Francisco. I said, ‘That’s not good.’ Then I saw this ridiculous comic book and decided I’d better do something. I whipped out a memo to my legal counsel, and put forward ideas on how this is indeed a federal issue.”

San Diego–based anti-circumcision activist Matthew Hess, the author of the bill that would ban circumcision in San Francisco, created the comic book, “Foreskin Man,” last year. In recent weeks, images from the comic have been picked up by the press and widely criticized as anti-Semitic.

Sherman not only defends the practice of circumcision as a religious right sacred to both Jews and Muslims, he

also blasts the proposed ban on jurisdictional grounds.

“It’s by no means clear that cities should be deciding on medical practice,” he said. “It’s usually decided at state level. The state licenses physicians and surgeons on which procedures can be carried out. At least 99.99 percent of all laws nationwide that deal with medical practice are not city laws.”

Sherman says he has just begun the process of lining up bipartisan support for the bill. One early co-sponsor is Rep. Keith Ellison, a Minnesota Democrat, the only Muslim member of the House of Representatives.

As for any precedence of federal law trumping the will of city voters, Sherman cites the example of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000. That act gave religious institutions the ability to avoid zoning restrictions on their property, thus exempting municipal decrees.

Will Sherman’s bill pass in time to trump the local election this November? The lawmaker is not sure.

“I wish I could say this is a slam dunk,” he said. “Congress moves slowly, especially if there isn’t a catastrophe waiting unless you act quickly. The fact that brises might be moved to Oakland is not at the same level.”

 Source: The "J"

http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/62109/circumcision-ban-talk-raises-hackles-of-socal-congressman/

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