{"id":183398,"date":"2014-12-02T21:02:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T02:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/12\/02\/its-good-to-be-a-jew\/"},"modified":"2014-12-02T21:02:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-03T02:02:00","slug":"its-good-to-be-a-jew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/12\/02\/its-good-to-be-a-jew\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Good to be a Jew"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2014\/12\/02\/cdc_circumcision_is_a_very_good_idea\/\">found circumcision to be unambiguously medically beneficial<\/a>:<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">On Tuesday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention <a href=\"http:\/\/well.blogs.nytimes.com\/2014\/12\/02\/circumcision-guidelines-target-teenagers\/\">released new guidelines<\/a> regarding the safety and benefits of circumcision. While the CDC won\u2019t actually instruct parents to get their sons snipped (since it is a personal decision that could be influenced by culture and religious beliefs), the report makes it clear that it is a very good idea to do so, and urges teenage boys to elect to have the surgery if they have not already.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe scientific evidence is clear that the benefits outweigh the risks,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Health\/wireStory\/cdc-circumcision-benefits-outweigh-risks-27301210\">said the CDC\u2019s Dr. Jonathan Mermin<\/a>. \u201cThe first thing it\u2019s important to know is that male circumcision has been associated with a 50 to 60 percent reduction of H.I.V. transmission, as well as a reduction in sexually transmitted infections such as herpes, bacterial vaginosis and the human papilloma virus (H.P.V.), which causes penile and cervical cancer,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/well.blogs.nytimes.com\/2014\/12\/02\/circumcision-guidelines-target-teenagers\/\">he continued.<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They also ignore the role that a traditional <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brit_milah\">Brit Milah<\/a> in preventing alcoholism:&nbsp; You get your very first taste of wine, then \u2026\u2026\u2026 <b><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-variant: small-caps;\">Whack!!!!<\/span><\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>It kinds of puts one off of boozing too much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have found circumcision to be unambiguously medically beneficial: On Tuesday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released new guidelines regarding the safety and benefits of circumcision. While the CDC won\u2019t actually instruct parents to get their sons snipped (since it is a personal decision that could be &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1074,1150,1021],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical","category-public-health","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183398"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}