convince people not to circumsize their sons

but it’s preferable to circumcise at an older age. There are many reasons for this. Yet most people (at least most Israely Jews) feel that there is some urgency in doing it at the age of eight days. Eight days! This is a very very young baby, with very very small organs!

I think I will be beknighted soon. Brave, brave sir Almog!

even among non-religious Jews. When I ask people why they do it, it eventually comes down to “he will be different and the other children will laugh at him”. Well, I don’t think so, and it strikes me as a very poor reason to perform an unnecessary operation on a baby.
I am not the type of person to give advice when I’m not asked, but every time someone approaches me with the dilemma of whether to circumsize or not – I will do my best to convince them not to. The first step should be to let it be more known that I haven’t circumsized my own son.