In 2011, I was interviewed by the Jerusalem Post about the topic of brit milah, Jewish ritual circumcision. That piece referenced an earlier piece I wrote for CLAL about my personal experience of performing the mitzvah of brit milah when my sons were born in 1998 (that piece is no longer on CLAL’s site but is available in the Berman Archive of Stanford University) 

Since my writing on this topic 25 years ago there has been extensive medical research on both the risks of male circumcision at infancy, in childhood, and adulthood, and on the benefits of male circumcision in reducing HIV transmission, syphilis, herpes, and papillomavirus associated with certain forms of cancer. The CDC publishes a fact sheet about Circumcision that is reviewed annually and I encourage people who are considering brit milah to be informed of both the risks and benefits.