NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – - Despite a move away from the practice in the mid-1800’s, some strictly Orthodox Jews still use their mouths to suck the site of circumcision during a bris. According to a ...
It’s been a bad week for circumcision. Two separate but equally tragic stories occurred almost a continent apart. In Great Britain, a six-month-old boy died a week after his circumcision, and it has ...
Editor’s note: The lawsuits against Bruchim, Rebecca Wald, Eliyahu Ungar-Sargon and all other named defendants were dismissed by an Idaho judge in February and March, respectively. A man who made a ...
A version of this piece originally appeared in Plus61J, an Australian-Jewish publication. Many Jews are beginning to turn away from the centuries’ old practice of circumcision. What can we make of ...