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Bonus Episode: Mitzvot, Malarkey, and Medical Ethics with Jennifer Margulis
May 9, 2025
29m 12s
Connecting The Dots
May 2, 2025
38m 37s
Foreskin Fears and Fantasies with Jonathan Allan
Apr 25, 2025
48m 36s
The Unmodified Body with Clare Chambers
Apr 18, 2025
49m 22s
Reevaluating Circumcision: A Trans Perspective with brin solomon
Apr 11, 2025
49m 01s
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| Date | Episode | Description | Length | ||||||
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| 5/9/25 | Bonus Episode: Mitzvot, Malarkey, and Medical Ethics with Jennifer Margulis | In this bonus episode, Eli sits down with journalist and human rights advocate Jennifer Margulis to explore her journey from accepting circumcision as a given to becoming one of its most thoughtful critics. Jennifer shares how her views were first challenged in her 20s during a human rights fellowship, how Jewish tradition and American medical culture shape parental assumptions, and why informed consent and bodily autonomy must be central to our discussions about infant circumcision. Jennifer... | 29m 12s | ||||||
| 5/2/25 | Connecting The Dots | What a season it’s been on the Bruchim Podcast! Eli and Max debrief the conversations we’ve had with an incredible variety of guests. We cover: hatafat dam brit, including its ethics, lived experience (for good and bad) and future possibilities; the significance of circumcision as a ritual act vs. a bodily state; the medicalization of circumcision and its social and religious impact; what the future looks like for brit milah and other forms of ritual genital cutting; and some of the ethical c... | 38m 37s | ||||||
| 4/25/25 | Foreskin Fears and Fantasies with Jonathan Allan | We talk a lot about Jewish circumcision on this podcast, but what’s the significance of the foreskin? Can we even think about the foreskin apart from circumcision? Eli and Max are joined by Prof. Jonathan Allan (Brandon University), author of Uncut: A Cultural Analysis of the Foreskin, to tackle these questions. We discuss the impact of the foreskin on identity, and the aesthetic power of the foreskin (including the foreskin on Michelangelo’s David!). We also discuss pregnancy manuals’ framin... | 48m 36s | ||||||
| 4/18/25 | The Unmodified Body with Clare Chambers | Your body is good enough just as it is — or so Prof. Clare Chambers (Cambridge University) argues in her book Intact: A Defence of the Unmodified Body. She joins Eli and Max to explain her Principle of the Unmodified Body, which is a political principle for resisting pressure to engage in body modification. We discuss the different kinds of reasons for body modification and the fuzzy boundaries between cultural, cosmetic, and clinical alterations. We also discuss whether religious practices m... | 49m 22s | ||||||
| 4/11/25 | Reevaluating Circumcision: A Trans Perspective with brin solomon | Should Jewish practices related to anatomy be revised in light of new understandings of sex and gender? Should hatafat dam brit replace circumcision both for the bris and for conversion? Eli and Max are joined by brin solomon, author of “Conversion & Circumcision: A Trans Approach,” to discuss brin’s proposals in this responsum. First we discuss the problems which trans and intersex experiences pose for circumcision in the case of conversion, including why previous attempts to accommodate... | 49m 01s | ||||||
| 4/4/25 | Choosing Brit Milah with Matthew Barron-Jones | What is it like to undergo circumcision as an adult for the purpose of Jewish conversion? Matthew Barron-Jones tells Eli his story: how he came to Judaism, what his process of conversion was like, how his circumcision went down, and the spiritual power of being able to choose circumcision for himself. Along the way, Eli and Matt draw some contrasts between infant and adult circumcision. Soul Publications online and on Instagram. | 32m 16s | ||||||
| 3/28/25 | Prick and Choose Part IV with F. and G. | A family shaken by a traumatic hatafat dam brit shares their story with Eli and Max. This wrenching personal account touches on hatafat dam brit and conversion; on the moral dangers of hatafat dam brit for children past infancy; and on the unpredictable and overwhelming ways that trauma, especially related to unwanted genital contact, can manifest long after an initial triggering experience. Eliyahu Ungar-Sargon, “For So We Find with Our Foremothers”– a Bruchim text study about circumcision... | 35m 27s | ||||||
| 3/21/25 | Prick and Choose Part III with Tim Kynerd, Jason Welle, and Yoshi Goodman | What is it like to undergo hatafat dam brit? Three men who’ve done it tell Eli and Max their stories: what led them to this ritual, how it went down, what it felt like, how they’ve viewed this experience in retrospect, and what they would want people to know who are considering hatafat dam brit for themselves. The Jewcurious Show, “How to Find a Rabbi Who's Right for You” | 46m 15s | ||||||
| 3/14/25 | Prick and Choose Part II with Rabbi Oren Steinitz | How does hatafat dam brit fit into the process of Jewish conversion, and what is the religious and psychological significance of this practice? Eli and Max are joined by Rabbi Oren Steinitz to dig into these questions. Rabbi Oren describes how he talks about hatafat dam brit and circumcision in the conversion process, including the importance of transparency in these conversations. Then we discuss the meaning of hatafat dam brit and why Rabbi Oren thinks it is a powerful aspect of Jewish conv... | 29m 03s | ||||||
| 3/7/25 | Prick and Choose Part I with Max Buckler | This episode begins our series on hatafat dam brit, a Jewish ritual performed in place of brit milah that involves pricking the circumcision scar to draw a small amount of blood. Eli and Max are joined by Max Buckler, who has recently published the first bioethics paper on hatafat dam brit and its relationship to debates about circumcision. We discuss Max’s argument that hatafat dam brit is the least extreme form of genital cutting; therefore, if hatafat dam brit is wrong, then so are other f... | 45m 54s | ||||||
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| 2/28/25 | The Medicalization of Circumcision with Elizabeth Reis | Many Jewish males are circumcised in the hospital without any Jewish ritual, but how did this become the case? Eli and Max are joined by the historian Prof. Elizabeth Reis (CUNY), who has studied the medicalization of circumcision in mid-century New York. While rabbis were glad to see mainstream support for circumcision, they worried about a shift away from the religious component of circumcision, which is exactly what happened. We explore this tension, and we discuss a fascinating historical... | 49m 18s | ||||||
| 2/21/25 | They’re Still Doing This with Ronald Goldman | How might childhood trauma relate to some of the big problems in our relationships and our world? Eli is joined by the psychologist Dr. Ronald Goldman, a longtime Jewish opponent of circumcision, to talk about Ron’s new book about empathy. Eli and Ron discuss mother-infant bonding and the effects it can have on adults, the systemic issues that prevent optimal mother-infant bonding, the psychology of trauma, and Ron’s journey as a writer and activist. Audrey-Ann Deneault, Stuart I. Hammond, ... | 25m 51s | ||||||
| 2/14/25 | Insistent Chutzpah with Jessie Kahnweiler | How do you make decisions about whether to circumcise your future kid? For feminist filmmaker Jessie Kahnweiler, the answer is by making a movie! Jessie joins Eli to discuss what it’s like to make a film about the sensitive subject of Jewish circumcision, how to balance different perspectives on a controversial topic, and the position of women in conversations about male circumcision. Eli and Jessie further explore how Jessie’s Jewish identity and the Jewish value of questioning relate to her... | 27m 30s | ||||||
| 2/7/25 | The Bioethics of Circumcision with Brian Earp | Interested in the ethics of circumcision? You’ve come to the right place! Eli and Max are joined by the bioethicist Prof. Brian Earp (National University of Singapore and Oxford University), a leading scholar of genital cutting and bodily integrity. Brian walks us through recent developments in the ethics of bodily integrity, and then we discuss the pros and cons of focusing on harm in ethical debates about circumcision. We raise and critique three prominent defenses of circumcision, by Josep... | 1h 03m 07s | ||||||
| 1/30/25 | Season Two Trailer | Buckle up! Season 2 is about to begin. | 0m 45s | ||||||
| 6/7/24 | Generative Violence with Na'ama Carlin | In this episode, Eli and Max are joined by Dr. Na’ama Carlin to discuss her book Morality, Violence, and Ritual Circumcision. They talk about Dr. Carlin’s distinction between two types of violence: Manichaen violence, which is done by and to people; and generative violence, which helps to create identities." They discuss the contemporary circumcision debate and how Jewish circumcision resists its logic. Further, they talk about Derrida’s book Circumfession and how Na’ama leans on it for her u... | 57m 56s | ||||||
| 5/31/24 | The Ethics of Neonatal Circumcision with Jeff Helmreich | In his second appearance on The Bruchim Podcast, Jeff presents his view on the ethics of circumcision, and Max and Eli respond with their own views on the matter. They discuss the right to bodily integrity, the right to self-determination, the differences and similarities between male and female genital cutting practices, and the possibility that circumcision wrongs people without harming them. Show Notes Eli’s Text Study Video: https://youtu.be/w_7xv6V68b8?si=YVdN3Jv53JTuOKv1 Eli’s Essay... | 37m 25s | ||||||
| 5/24/24 | Ethics and Jewish Law Part III | In the third part of this series, Eli and Max are joined by the moral philosopher Jeff Helmreich. After Jeff gets up to speed on the conversation, he complicates matters by introducing a fifth option for the relationship between ethics and Jewish law. The group digs into the "Oven of Akhnai," a famous story from the Babylonian Talmud. Jeff then talks about the process he went through when deciding to circumcise his son and articulates his position, followed by discussion of how his posi... | 48m 14s | ||||||
| 5/17/24 | Ethics and Jewish Law Part II | In the second part of this series, Eli is joined by Bruchim’s Director of Education, Max DuBoff, to look at an essay by Rabbi Ethan Tucker that is directly relevant to the relationship between Ethics and Jewish law. After a brief introduction to Rabbi Tucker’s place in the Jewish world, they try to understand how Rabbi Tucker's view fits into the categories delineated in the first part of the series. They conclude by discussing Tucker’s comments in this essay on the topic of circumcision. Sh... | 37m 34s | ||||||
| 5/10/24 | Ethics and Jewish Law Part I | Are Jewish law and ethics in conflict? Eli is joined by Max DuBoff, Bruchim's Director of Education, to explore this question. They begin by defining their terms and explaining what they mean by ethics and what they mean by halakha, Jewish law. Max then proposes four possible positions that one might take regarding the relationship between the two, based on two questions: 1) Can ethics and Jewish law conflict?; and 2) If they can, what should we do about it? Max and Eli each explain which pos... | 1h 02m 09s | ||||||
| 5/3/24 | As Yet Unscarred | In this episode, Eli is joined by Bruchim’s Executive Director Rebecca Wald. Rebecca talks about the decision not to circumcise her son and the consequences of that decision. Eli and Rebecca then discuss Rebecca's website Beyond the Bris and how it became one of the premier Jewish websites on the subject of circumcision. They also talk about Rebecca’s book Celebrating Brit Shalom and the founding of Bruchim. Here they clarify the unique position that Bruchim occupies in the world and talk abo... | 23m 24s | ||||||
| 4/26/24 | Value in Stuff That Has Endured with Mark Oppenheimer | In this episode, Eli is joined by Bruchim’s Director of Education Max DuBoff and Jewish journalist Mark Oppenheimer. This episode was recorded two days after Hamas’s October 7th attack against Israel so the conversation starts with reactions to the news. The discussion then moves to the role of antisemitism in Jewish-American identity, the importance or lack thereof of denominations, and the right of a community to set its own identity boundaries. Mark shares his process for deciding to... | 53m 02s | ||||||
| 4/19/24 | Belonging | In this episode, Eli is joined by Bruchim’s President, Lisa Braver Moss. Lisa discusses her regret after circumcising her two boys, and how this catalyzed a lifetime of activism about Jewish circumcision. She also reflects on writing a novel about circumcision and a book of ceremonies for alternative baby welcoming ceremonies, also called brit shalom. Plus, Eli and Lisa think together about what it’s like to be a Jew in the Genital Autonomy Movement, and how to be an effective activist on sen... | 33m 43s | ||||||
| 4/12/24 | A Complicated Complication with Gary Shteyngart | In this episode, Gary Shteyngart joins Eli to talk about growing up as an immigrant and his memories of being circumcised at the age of seven. He talks about "the very painful complications from his circumcision which have haunted him as an adult." Gary talks about the decision to tell his story to the New Yorker, the reception of his article, and his feelings about the practice of circumcision in general. Show Notes: Gary Shteyngart’s article in the New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/m... | 50m 15s | ||||||
| 4/5/24 | Jews Opposed to Circumcision? | Welcome to the Bruchim Podcast! For our first episode, host Eli Ungar-Sargon is joined by Max Buckler, Bruchim’s Director of Strategic Initiatives and a bioethics researcher. They discuss: Is it a contradiction for a Jew to be opposed to circumcision? And what's the basis of Jewish identity? They also talk about the need for an organization like Bruchim, why we don’t accept the don’t-ask-don’t-tell status quo about circumcision, and how Max became interested in the subject of circumcision. S... | 29m 41s | ||||||
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