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 unpredictable and overwhelming ways that trauma, especially related to unwanted genital contact, can manifest long after an initial triggering experience.

Eliyahu Ungar-Sargon, “For So We Find with Our Foremothers”– a Bruchim text study about circumcision and conversion.