Born Alecia Beth Moore in Pennsylvania to A&E nurse Judith (née Kugel), Pink identifies as Jewish and has described her heritage as Irish-German-Lithuanian-Jew.
The 44-year-old lives in California with her daughter, Willow, aged 12, son Jameson, aged six, and her husband Carey Hart.
In 2021 she posted a video of herself and Willow singing the blessings for Chanukah while Jameson helped with lighting the candles, and she has described baking challah with her mother.
This is not the first time that the star has been confronted about the subject of circumcision. In 2019, after a photograph she shared on social media of her son on the beach prompted criticism, she responded to the “disgusting remarks” in a follow-up message on Instagram: “There’s something seriously wrong with a lot of you out there. Going off about my baby’s penis? About circumcision??? Are you for real? As any normal mother at the beach, I didn’t even notice he took off his swim diaper.”
Brit milah - the ceremony during which a circumcision is performed on Jewish baby boys when they are eight days old - is an extremely important tradition for many Jews.
The Book of Genesis teaches that God commanded Abraham to circumcise himself and his offspring as a symbol of the covenant between Jews and God.
There is no physical procedure comparable to circumcision for Jewish baby girls, though some families welcome their arrival with a ceremony called a brit bat, or "daughter's covenant".
