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?

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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


Circumcision, kippot and hiding as a Jew

This was not the first time I had heard about religious tensions from families in Europe. But something changed for me on this trip.

A kippah demonstration in front of a synagogue in Berlin

Baby's genitals amputated after botched circumcision by nurse

"I didn't know what went on in the operation room," explained the father. "I only had someone tell me, 'Come take your daughter!'"

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World leaders urged to make female circumcision a priority like HIV

"We're learning every day that there are more pockets where this is happening," said Shelby Quast, Americas director at women's rights group Equality Now.

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Holland’s circumcision pros are breaking the law, Health Ministry says

“It is not correct that anyone may perform circumcision because circumcision is a religious freedom or because they are proficient in it,” the spokesperson said.

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Rabbi Ahiad Ettinger's name lives on with grandson of woman he saved

Terrorist aimed his weapon at the woman but switched his attention toward the rabbi

Efrat Ettinger (R) delivers a eulogy for her father, Rabbi Ahiad Ettinger, in the West Bank settlement of Eli, March 18th, 2019

Israeli scholar: Baby Circumcision increases risk of cot death

An Israel-born genetics scholar from Britain published a study claiming circumcision of boys increases the risk of cot death, but a prominent Dutch pediatrician dismissed his findings as “nonsense.”

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Denmark considering ban on circumcision. Will the Jews stay?

“The more I live here, the more I get the feeling this might be the wrong place to raise a Jewish family.”

Police stand guard outside a synagogue in Krystalgade in Copenhagen, February 15, 2015.

Rabbis to the rescue: the fight against Iceland’s circumcision ban

Conference of European Rabbis President Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt told The Jerusalem Post that his organization used a three-pronged approach to try to combat Iceland’s move.

Conference of European Rabbis’ Standing Committee meeting in Riga, Latvia on May 1, 2018.

US Jewish organizations urge Iceland to nix bill banning male circumcision

"If passed, the Icelandic measure would create insurmountable challenges for Jews and Muslims living there,”

Relatives look at a baby after his circumcision in Jerusalem September 24, 2012.

As I See It: The cutting edge of secular illiberalism

Echoing the bigotry of centuries, secularism has become the tyranny of the modern age.

PREPARING FOR a circumcision.