Circumcision

UK unlikely to classify circumcision as child abuse despite reports, Jewish leaders tell 'Post'

Jewish leaders told The Jerusalem Post that the guidance made it clear it was aimed at circumcision under inappropriate conditions, and not to classify it as child abuse.

 Demonstrators hold Israeli and British flags outside the Law Courts, during a march against antisemitism, after an increase in the UK, during a temporary truce between the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas and Israel, in London, Britain November 26, 2023.
Surgeon preforming circumcision undee local anaesthesia on muslim children in Malaysia.

Surgeon saves three-year-olds penis after botched barber-led circumcision

THE WRITER, second from left, performs a circumcision in the presence of four generations, great-grandfather to newborn. Just as much as the Jewish people have continuously kept the commandment of circumcision, the practice has preserved our identity, he asserts.

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U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. delivers remarks during a Cabinet meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House on Oct. 9, 2025.

Nadler accuses RFK Jr of antisemitism over claim that ‘early’ circumcisions are tied to autism


Rabbinical court fines woman NIS 500/day until she agrees to circumcise her son

Court stated that the mother was refusing to have the boy circumcised as a tactic in her desire to reconcile with her husband.

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Exclusive: Maccabee MKs fighting anti-circumcision laws

More than a dozen lawmakers are working to gather signatures from MPs around Europe on draft motion to reverse PACE ban of brit mila.

Rabbi holds boy for circumcision

MK Sheetrit argues against European council's anti-circumcision science

Hatnua MK addresses Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, rejecting resolution that brit mila "non-medically justified."

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Norway to introduce new regulations on circumcision

Norwegian gov't to examine non-medical circumcision; Norway Children’s Ombudswoman: Non-medical circumcision violates minors' rights.

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Ben-Dahan to Council of Europe leader: Circumcision ban violates freedom of religion

MK tells Thorbjorn Jagland that EU cannot fight the principles of Judaism that the Jews have observed for thousands of years.

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Circonspections autour de la circoncision

Les manœuvres contre la circoncision en Europe sont l’expression nouvelle d’un antisémitisme qui menace la vie communautaire juive

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France: 5,500 sign petition backing right to ritual circumcision

Prominent French politicians, scholars and clergymen join effort to thwart attempts to ban ritual circumcision of boys in Europe.

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MKs to traverse Europe to combat anti-circumcision proposals

Edelstein calls urgent meeting of MKs; Tibi: This is a joint, moral interest of Jews and Muslims.

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What’s hiding behind attacks on circumcision?

The climate of hatred is widespread in Europe, anti-Jewish and anti-Israel laws are pushed through far more easily than in many places.

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Fighting the cut

Recent European attacks on circumcision mark a new expression of anti-Semitism that threatens communal Jewish life.

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