
The Bruchim Podcast
The only podcast in the world dedicated to Jews who think differently about circumcision.
Podcasting since 2024 • 20 episodes
The Bruchim Podcast
Latest Episodes
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 unpr...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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35:27

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 ...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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46:15

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 ...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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29:03

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...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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45:54

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-centur...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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49:18
