BERLIN – After meeting with Germany’s federal justice minister on Wednesday,
leaders of the Simon Wiesenthal Center told The Jerusalem Post that the outlines
of a new German law appear to be an “encouraging” step toward remedying the
ongoing criminalization of male circumcision in the Federal
Republic.
Rabbi Abraham Cooper, the center’s associate dean, and
Dr. Shimon Samuels, the center’s director for international relations,
held a meeting with Minister Sabine Leutheusser- Schnarrenberger and her legal
task force, which has been charged with drafting a new law to counter the
circumcision ban. The minister told the center representatives that Germany is
doing its best to “remove the uncertainty” surrounding the practice.