Circumcision
'It's our right to live freely as Jews': Belgian Jewish leader on circumcision bans - interview
The conversation came amid rumours that Belgium may look to ban circumcision, which reignited after a public argument between the US ambassador to Belgium, Bill White, and Deputy PM Maxime Prévot.
US ambassador demands that Belgium drop ‘ridiculous and antisemitic’ investigation of mohels
I traveled from Israel to Spain to convert new Jews. A single ‘Sababa’ made me feel safer - opinion
UK unlikely to classify circumcision as child abuse despite reports, Jewish leaders tell 'Post'
The 92-year-old ongoing story of a ‘brissing gown’
In future generations, seven grandsons, and 10 great-grandsons would also have their brit in the gown.
New York police chaplain, Alvin Kass, 84, mugged during daily walk
Kass, 84, was walking at 5:45 a.m. when he was approached by an individual who told the rabbi that he was hungry and needed food.
When mohel is not available, family takes circumcision into its own hands
Noam and Elisheva Fogel, Jewish Agency emissaries to New Zealand, welcomed Eden Refael to the world just two days before the coronavirus lockdown in the country began.
Russia has a full-time surgeon whose only job is circumcising Jewish men
The religious Jewish world has created some unusual jobs, but one of the more bizarre surely belongs to Dr. Yeshaya Shafit, who is Russia’s only mohel, or professional circumciser, for adult men.
In brit, the baby comes first - opinion
Metzitza b’peh needs to stop now. There is absolutely no reason for the practice to continue.
3-week-old baby hospitalized with brain infection after brit gone wrong
Evidence of newborn herpes infections accompanied by brain infections and their connection to the 'oral suction' in circumcisions have been widely described in medical history for the past 200 years.
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Does an international campaign to ban brit mila contribute to antisemitism?
What is deemed as an attack on a fundamental ethic of Judaism can be construed as an assault on the Jewish people.
Belgian MP to submit legislation to protect circumcision
‘Brit milah is under attack in Belgium,’ says Michael Freilich
Four NYC infants contract herpes from circumcision rite in past 6 months
Four infants have contracted herpes in New York City in the past six months after undergoing a circumcision rite in which the ritual circumciser cleans the circumcision wound by oral suction.
Sweden’s largest church supports Jewish and Muslim circumcision
Kosher and halal slaughter is not allowed in most of Belgium and Norway, as well as parts of Austria and Switzerland, among other places.
