Note 2 — I CIRCUMCISION AS A RELIGIOUS RITE.
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According to Keating's Cyclopædia of the Diseases of Children, 1890, vol. iii., some of the rabbins now omit it; "in the teeth of a strong and growing popular prejudice." I am informed, however, by the Rev. S. Singer, to whom I am greatly indebted for a courteous reply to inquiry on the subject, that these congregations would not be regarded as orthodox; and that the innovation is unknown in the Old World.