The Conference of European Rabbis will lobby against recent circumcision bans by advocating legislation supporting the practice. This week, hospitals in Switzerland and a province of Austria announced ...

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, ...

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 ...

BERLIN (AP) — The Conference of European Rabbis says it's calling an emergency meeting in Berlin to discuss a regional court ruling that circumcising young boys for religious reasons amounts to bodily ...

The mitzvah of brit milah consists of the removal of the foreskin, milah, and the peeling back of the mucous membrane to ...

After US Ambassador to Belgium Bill White accused his host country of antisemitism over its laws regulating circumcision, the Belgian government found itself embroiled in a very public argument. White ...

Israel’s Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Kalman Ber, the president of the Chief Rabbinate Council, criticizes Belgian authorities over the decision by the Antwerp Public Prosecutor’s Office to press criminal ...