Circumcision

Belgium's ban on ritual circumcision is the same as making Jews second-class citizens - editorial

If Jews are being harassed in the street, synagogues are being attacked, and Israel is regularly delegitimized, then why do Jews want to live there?

A Belgian national flag flies over the Royal Palace
Jewish men pray in a Belgian synagogue.

Belgium indicts two mohels, citing sufficient evidence of 'bodily harm with premeditation'

The law courts in Tel Aviv

Case against mohel suspected of causing baby's death reinforced after three doctors testify

A ‘MOHEL’ holds a scalpel as he performs a circumcision

Third complaint filed against man suspected of causing infant's death after circumcision


Elon Musk bat Ashley St. Clair angeblich, sein jüdisches Kind nicht zu beschneiden

Ashley St. Clair verrät, dass Musk sie gebeten habe, auf die Beschneidung ihres gemeinsamen Sohn zu verzichten, ein ehrwürdiges Ritual in der jüdischen Tradition.

 Elon Musk

Belgian police raid houses of mohalim, seize circumcision tools

According to Belgian reports, alongside the seizing of tools the mohalim were asked to provide records of all boys they had circumcised in the last year.

 Belgian police in Antwerp

Elon Musk reportedly asked Ashley St. Clair not to circumcise his Jewish child

Ashley St. Clair reveals that Musk asked her not to give their son a circumcision, a venerable ritual in the Jewish tradition.

 Elon Musk

Stamped with holiness: Circumcision and the sacred power of oaths

Fulfilling the commandment of circumcision means taking the ordinary body of a human being and transforming it into something holy that has been brought into the covenant/treaty of Hashem’s people.

 An illustrative image of a stamp and bright light underneath it.

Ukrainian Jewish man takes name Kfir Ariel in honor of Bibas brothers

The Ukrainian Jewish man took the name Kfir Ariel to honor the two child hostages murdered in Gaza captivity.

 Pictures of Shiri Bibas and her children Kfir and Ariel, in Jerusalem, February 20, 2025

The arrest of a mohel in Ireland has shaken me to my core - opinion

This is the first time a rabbi has been arrested for performing circumcision since the time of the Nazis.

 A mohel performs a circumcision ceremony in Israel, July 6, 2023.

British rabbi arrested in Ireland for performing illegal non-Jewish circumcision

Rabbi Jonathan Abraham performed circumcisions on people who were not members of the Irish Jewish community, according to Irish Chief Rabbi Yoni Wieder.

A ‘MOHEL’ holds a scalpel as he performs a circumcision

Searching for truth: Rabbi Akiva and Turnus Rufus in dialogue

We are sent on our individual journeys from the moment we are born, seeking simultaneous distance and closeness with family, community, and God as we make the choices that shape who we are.

 OFTEN, TURNUS Rufus asked clever questions. Pictured: Monumental question mark in Milton Keynes, UK, 1975.

Conversion crisis: Israeli gov't circumcision tender delay leaves 100 in 'torture'

Only seven medical circumcisions had been performed since April 2023, according to data presented to the Knesset.

A rabbi holds an eight-day-old baby during a circumcision ceremony in Brussels, August 20, 2009.

Should Jewish males be circumcised? - comment

While I wouldn’t go so far as to call circumcision a “terrible mistake,” perhaps there’s a middle ground for the Jewish baby boys yet to be born.

 PERFORMING A brit milah