Pity poor 12-year-old Misha Boldt. His father wants him circumcised. His mother objects. Theyre divorced. The father, James Boldt, converted to Judaism and has custody of the boy. The mother, Lia Boldt, is Russian Orthodox and came from Russia where non-religious circumcision is rare.
Misha is 12 years old a very problematic age for anyone to be told to have a sensitive and personal part of his body excised. Whether his foreskin stays or goes has been fodder for a trial court in Oregon, then a states appeal court, then the …