Jewish leaders said that prosecuting mohels was “antisemitic in nature, reminiscent of efforts taken in Europe against Jewish ...

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Jewish leaders across Europe urged Belgium to halt legal action against mohels, warning it threatens religious freedom and ...

What survives here is not merely a mohel’s register, but an extraordinary ethnographic document of Jewish life in ...

The leaders of the Jewish federations of Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland urged lawmakers in Reykjavik to reject a bill proposing to ban the rite. (JTA) — The leaders of the Jewish communities of ...

Richard Prasquier, the French Jewish leader, said that banning circumcision in Europe “would inevitably mean the end of Judaism” there. “You can seek a ban but you need to understand the consequences: ...

The Power of Jewish Rituals as a Mark of the Covenant By Rabbi Rachel Ain, November 2008 Why do I wear a kippah? I was asked this question when speaking at Corcoran High School this week, giving a ...

The city’s $2,000 fine to stop unsafe circumcisions is a mere cost-of-doing-business slap that will do nothing to deter the ­lucrative but potentially disease-spreading ritual, mohels and community ...

San Francisco-area Jewish organizations condemned a proposed ballot measure to outlaw Jewish ritual circumcision in the city. The Anti-Defamation League, the local Jewish Community Relations Council, ...

Some Jewish parents are cutting out one of Judaism’s oldest traditions: the bris. The bris — the ritual circumcision of Jewish boys at eight days old — goes back to the story of Abraham, who ...

The city Health Department has reported a new case of neonatal herpes caused by a controversial ritual Jewish circumcision. The ancient practice — known as metzitzah b’peh — requires a mohel, the ...

Dozens of European Jewish leaders, joined by Israeli and American diplomats, decried Antwerp prosecutors who plan to charge two Jewish men with performing illegal circumcisions.