Monthly Archives: January 2026

The Executive Director of Doctors Opposing Circumcision, John V. Geisheker, offers this personal remembrance of Dr. Mark D. Reiss, a long-time D.O.C. Vice President, who passed recently at age 92, in San Francisco: Dr. Mark was an ‘early-adopter’ (1996) of D.O.C., who added a vital and unique asset to our efforts. Mark was an [...]

The following memorial essay was originally published on Beyond the Bris: The Circumcision Conversation, January 22, 2016. It is reposted here with kind permission of the author, Rebecca Wald. Dr. Mark D. Reiss (1933–2025) Remembering a physician, Jewish ritual reformer, and elder of the genital-autonomy movement. Dr. Mark D. Reiss, a retired physician and [...]