Author Michael Chabon Opposes Circumcision
By Jewcy Staff
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon, best known for his novels The Adventures of Kavalier & Clay and The Yiddish Policemen's Union, has a memoir called Manhood for Amateurs coming out this fall. Among other subjects, the book covers his life with wife - and fellow author - Ayelet Waldman and their four children. Today's Page Six has a blurb about Chabon and the comments he makes about circumcision in Manhood:
"Mutilation the only honest name for this raw act that my ...
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The beauty of the Jewish religion is it is a religion on a quest. They must find a way to stop circumcising little boys. The quest takes thousands of years. They change slowly, but they do change, and some day they will reach the goal. They will be better for the experience. Their daughter religion, Christianity, won't fare as well because it is locked and can't adapt. It is dependent on the Jewish religion, and on a Jewish religion that circumcises. My concern is the one who shows the Jews the way forward might end up being killed by the Christians.
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