Circumcise Me- The Jewish Week NY

He's just your average Irish, Italian Catholic kid from Philly, Comic Actor, Sober Alcoholic, Recovering Drug Addict, Husband, Father, Reform, Conservative, Unorthodox, Orthodox Jew.

His name is Yisrael Campbell, (the artist formerly known as Christopher), and this is his story - a spiritual journey stretching across four decades, two continents, and three circumcisions. It's that rare collision of comedy and theater that will have women howling with laughter, men squirming in their seats, and everyone standing up to cheer. Poignant, provocative, and powerfully witty, Circumcise Me is the true - and truly unforgettable - story of a man who was born to be funny.The Jewish part came later.Circumcise Me is written and performed by Yisrael Campbell and Directed by Sam Gold. An Amazing play you do not want to miss.

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• conversion
• circumcision

[SamsRawTruth]

Jewish jokes are funny (I was raised Jewish), and you did them well, but I agree, genital mutilation is irresponsible, and extremely damaging, not funny.

[joelface]

non-consensual genital surgery is no laughing matter.

The other jokes were funny though.

[LerfaMu1]

What some people won't do for MONEY

I think he is a phony

What better way for success in show business: PRETEND to be Jewish, display your conversion as entertainment, RAKE IN THE $ from a half witted show which isn't very funny, IMHO. There is much better TRUE comedy out there. This isn't comedy. There is nothing sadder than poorly written comedy.

[xxyc21]

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also Wikipedia has some even more ancient claims, that some forms of male circumcision may have been practiced in sub-Sahara Africa. I't health benefits are up for modern debate.

I am quite glad, I do not remember my own circumcision. LOL

[xxyc21]

@smoochielipz21

I found one site which dated 2400 BC from ancient Egypt showing male circumcision. Some other near simarlaries in both Torah and New Testament writings, like the Ten Commandments, resurrecting the dead, concept of heaven and hell and messiahs/saviors, all were in existence in ancient Egyptian texts thousands of years before the claimed birth of Abraham of 2000 BC.

I do not hin it negates the newer traditions but provides a forerunner tradition from which idea were borrowed.

[smoochielipz21]

@xxyc21 yes circumcision was an old practice... 

[smoochielipz21]

@MindofaJedi haha eww

[xxyc21]

Likely the ancient practice of Jewish circumcision is an imitation of the castration of the Egyptian neteru Osiris. Many practices in Abramic religions appear to have been borrowed from ancient Egypt's religion.

[MindofaJedi]

Forced circumcision is a barbaric primitive practice that should be outlawed in civilized nations.

[amerklinger]

if a kike cuts his cock he turns into a mizzer banker robber zionist

[drealgrin]

@pshapiro1029 I was referring to the Jewish God in that previous post. Jewish people are just as loving and caring parents as anybody else, But so are African parents who cut off their daughters clitoris. And so were Chinese parents who had their children footbinded.

IT doesn't change the fact that what they were doing to their children was unethical and torturous.