For the first time in the history of the Shetland Isles, a lonely group of islands off the northeast coast of Scotland, a circumcision of a Jewish boy was performed. The child, named Abraham Ben ...
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Circumcision is one of Judaism's most important laws and for generations of faithful it has symbolized a biblical covenant with God. But in Israel, more and more Jewish parents ...
Infants in New York have contracted herpes during Jewish circumcision ritual, health department says
NEW YORK — Several infants have contracted herpes in New York in recent months after undergoing a circumcision ritual, the Health Department confirmed. There have been three cases reported since ...
A rabbi in Bavaria has been slapped with criminal charges of committing bodily harm, in the first known case to arise from an anti-circumcision ruling in May. The charge against Rabbi David Goldberg, ...
(JTA) — When Elana Johnson was shopping for a synagogue three years ago, the mother of four approached a Conservative congregation in Lincoln, Nebraska, to ask about joining. For most synagogues, such ...
J.H. Kellogg, cereal mogul, believed circumcision was a sure-fire cure for masturbation—particularly if the surgery was performed without chloroform so the boy could feel it. In the 1870s, his and ...
NEW YORK -- The city said Tuesday it has reached a tentative agreement with members of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community over a tradition known as oral suction circumcision. Health officials have ...
Rabbis in the Boston area will attend circumcision ceremonies only if a “mohel” or a Jewish physician performs the operation, it was announced here today by Rabbi Joseph S. Shubow, president of the ...
Three years ago, Iceland's small Jewish community was fighting legislation that would ban the circumcision of children. It was an uphill battle because Judaism was not on the island nation's list of ...
On June 26, 2012, the Cologne, Germany regional court ruled that circumcising young boys is a criminal offense because it constitutes “illegal bodily harm.” The court held that a child’s right to ...
FITCHBURG — Signs reading “I WANT MY FORESKIN BACK” and “CIRCUMCISION PENIS MUTILATION” could be seen on the corner of Lunenburg Street and John Fitch Highway Thursday as the “intactivists” known as ...
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