NEW YORK -- For thousands of years, rabbis performed a simple procedure to cleanse the wound during a ritual circumcision: Like outdoorsmen treating a snake bite, they sucked blood from the cut and ...

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, ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A group of rabbis is clashing with New York City health officials over the safety of an ancient circumcision ritual. Three rabbis and three Jewish groups asked a federal court Thursday ...

For the past year, I’ve worried about what I would do if air-raid sirens sounded while I was performing a brit milah, a ritual circumcision. Would I halt the proceedings and send everyone to the bomb ...

The incident took place on the first anniversary of Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel. EFRAT, West Bank — For the past year, I’ve worried about what I would do if air-raid sirens sounded while I was ...

(JTA) — “What are these for?” the security guard at the Dubai airport asked as three others inspected my bris kit — the bag of supplies I carry when I perform circumcisions on Jewish baby boys.

A 56-year-old man from Russia took for himself the name of a Chabad emissary murdered in the Bondi Beach attack during his ...

SAN FRANCISCO — On the eighth day of her son's life, Julia Query welcomed friends and family to celebrate his birth and honor their Jewish heritage. But there was no crying, no scalpel, no blood, no ...

Some pastors offer circumcision ceremonies as an alternative to older practices involving ancestor worship, misogyny, and ...