They are going to charge NIS 1000 for the brit? When I made a brit for my son in Modiin three months ago, a professional mohel, with 20 years experience, from Kiryat Sefer charged me NIS 400, and NIS 50 for a disposable kit. I guess it goes to show you that these rabbis are no different than the claims they make against the Haredi ones.

are causing unnecessary pain to their sons. Many of them become religious as teenagers, as young men or even older and then they go through kosher brit milah which is extremely painful at that age.

Comment made that 1000 shekels too high and a rabbi in Kiryat Sefer did Brit for 400 shekels does not sound typical. One thousand shekels is fair price for experienced responsible mohel. Maybe one rabbi in Kiryat Sefer has excellent price but doubt that is the norm.

Circumcision should be outlawed the worl over it is a voilation. Leave what G-d had put there in the first place.

Oh dear. Illogical in the extreme, are you going to leave a cancer because 'G-d has put it there?' G-d commands us to have milah done, that is the truth of the matter

It's depressing to imagine that even in the Holy Land there are Jews so Left-wing that they aren't sure about bris milah. Bris mila goes all the way back to Abraham and is the sign in our flesh of G-d's eternal covenant with Israel, consecrating procreation.

When I made brit for my two sons, the mohel refused to take any money because he said that it was a mitzwa (Rav Adiel Yazdi from Jerusalem). Even though I gave him an envelope as a gift to his family, he refused to take it.

There are very substantial reasons to rethink the "sacredness" of brit milah. We know now that the foreskin is comprised of more than 20,000 of the most touch sensitive nerve endings on the male body. It is not a neutral event to permanently remove them. Indeed, the Great Rambam, knew this very well. It would be an act of great honesty to share this information with parents so they can judge for themselves the "sanctity" of such a mitzvah: Here is what Maimonides, the great philosopher, physician, and Talmudist, had to say in his famous book, The Guide of the Perplexed, written in 1160: The fact that circumcision weakens the faculty of sexual excitement and sometimes perhaps diminishes the pleasure is indubitable. For if at birth this member has been made to bleed and has had its covering taken away from it, it must indubitably be weakened. The Sages, may their memory be blessed, have explicitly stated: It is hard for a woman with whom an uncircumcised man has had sexual intercourse to separate from him (Genesis Rabbah LXXX). In my opinion this is the strongest of reasons for circumcision.