Jews don’t look good here. What can we do to distract the goyim from investigating this matter? I think we should. Maybe offer some pay per view boxing matches? New tv shows? Or maybe this is too big an issue for us to discuss. Maybe we should wheel out the Museum of Tolerance. Boxing will work on the dark ones, yes, but for the regular white goyim, I think we need something more. What’s the popular thing with the goyim these days?
It is hard for a Jew like me to know how to appeal to the childlike, animal like mind of the goy, how to distract him. With shiny beads? blankets? what works on them?
Besides, aren’t Roman priests allowed to do this? Why not us?
Mayor Bill de Blasio has the power to fill a majority of the seats on the New York City Board of Health before he asks it to repeal highly disputed regulations on a Jewish circumcision ritual linked to herpes infections in infants.
Mr. de Blasio’s administration announced last month it would ask the board to rescind regulations that required parents to sign a consent form before a mohel, a person who performs circumcisions, uses his mouth to suck blood from the cut during the procedure. The policy was supported by predecessor Michael Bloomberg’s administration.
When the board unanimously approved the parental-consent requirement in September 2012, it prompted an outcry from some members of the city’s ultraorthodox community. They denounced it as an infringement on religious freedom.
Mr. de Blasio wants a policy that hinges on community members self-reporting and self-policing. The proposal has won plaudits from Jewish leaders and the community has agreed to ban a mohel who tests positive for herpes from performing oral suction anywhere in the world.
“Along with Health Department education in health care settings, this promises to be a more successful approach,” said Mary Bassett, commissioner of the city’s Department of Health & Mental Hygiene. “Community cooperation will make identification of mohelim who may have transmitted the infection more likely, and help prevent cases of neonatal herpes.”
The de Blasio administration had planned to present the proposal to the board, which is now controlled by Bloomberg-era appointees, in March. But the administration decided to delay the presentation until June, in part because officials wanted to build as persuasive a case as possible, aides said.
