A reader notes the following, and wonders if the outraged right is ready to condemn Hasidic Jews, too:

Metzitzah b’peh (”suction by mouth”) is a practice in Haredi and Hasidic circles in which, after removing the foreskin, the mohel will suck out the blood from the wound to clean it. The mohel spits the blood into a receptacle provided. Afterwards the circumcised penis is bandaged, and the brit considered complete.

Good thing Webb didn’t write a novel set in Israel, eh?

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