The New York City board of health has voted unanimously to require parents to sign a consent form before allowing a mohel to perform metztizah b’peh, direct oral-genital suction during circumcision.

The New York City Board of Health unanimously passed a regulation on Thursday that will require consent from parents before an infant can have a form of Jewish ritual circumcision, prevalent in parts ...

A debate is growing among Israel's secular Jewish majority over the question of whether to circumcise newborn sons. The vast majority still... Some Israeli Parents Rethink Ritual Circumcision The ...

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 ...

The German parliament voted Wednesday to keep male circumcision legal, ending an international controversy that started when a Cologne court ruled the practice constitutes “bodily harm.” The new law, ...

(RNS) — As European governments have woken to the need to fight anti-Semitism, they should adopt a common approach to guarantee this religious practice. (RNS) — In a decade that has witnessed lethal ...