MAYOR OKS CIRCUMCISION RITE???

I tell ya, I don't want to seem anti-Semitic--I need an agent, for chrissakes!--but doesn't this bit of news make you "bris"tle a little?

From the NY POST today.

After a closed-door meeting with members of the Orthodox Jewish community yesterday, Mayor Bloomberg decided not to ban a little known practice in which a rabbi draws blood with his mouth after a circumcision to clean out impurities.

The custom is thousands of years old, but earlier this year, health officials investigated Rabbi Yitzchok Fischer of Rockland County after an infant he circumcized that way died from herpes.

(But wait...isn't the practice supposed to REMOVE impurities?)

Fischer was questioned after health officials learned three other babies he circumcised contracted herpes, according to published reports. Health officials filed a legal complaint ordering Fischer to use a sterile tube and wear protective gloves, and said he has agreed to abide by that order.

(Wow! To get herpes and not even have an orgasm to in compensate for the life-long disease or death? Amen! Are there no herpes-free, blood-sucking, foreskin-slicing rabbis in Rockland County that the orthodox jews can use?)