It turns out, and this is where the Board of Deputies was astonishingly lax in vetting her, she is student of Avi Shlaim – oh boy – her doctoral thesis advisor. For those who don’t know him, Shlaim is a professor at Oxford, an Israeli, the son of an Iraqi father – I don’t know about his mother – who writes on the Arab-Israeli conflict as Noam Chomsky does; as Normal Finkelstein does who, by the way, is a protégé of Chomsky, whose parents were friends of Chomsky. Avi Shlaim is as demented about Israel as Chomsky, and now it seems his protégé Rebecca Steinfeld is a female Norman Finkelstein. I mean, only a profoundly ignorant Jewess could see in circumcision “genital mutilation.”

Judaism/Jewishness begins with Avraham and the covenant between him and HaShem that is concretized in this act which, inter alia, sends the message that a Jew’s covenant with HaShem is right there in his reproductive organs which connects sexuality to the idea of the holy. Before Jewishness, there was no such idea as “holy matrimony.” For all those people that preceded the Jews, especially the ill-fated for extinction Greeks and Romans, sex was for them what Hugh Hefner thinks of it: pleasure divorced by parenthood, from creating human life and educating children to be responsible adults, moral actors restrained in their behaviors.

There is a connection between the Age of Hugh Hefner and the abomination in New York State last week blessing the sodomy that did in Greece and Rome…