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Poll: 45 percent of Britons favor banning shechitah
About 45 percent of 1,900 Britons polled favored banning Jewish ritual slaughter and 38 percent said they favored banning nonmedical circumcision.
March 20, 2013
European doctors: U.S. colleagues support circumcision out of bias
Thirty-eight physicians from Europe wrote a paper alleging that “cultural bias” was behind the pro-circumcision stance of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
A Timeline of Myself and Judaism
German Parliament passes law guaranteeing legality of ritual circumcision
The German Parliament passed a law protecting the right of Jewish and Muslim parents to choose a ritual circumcision for their sons, after months of heated debate over efforts to ban the practice.
German lawmakers propose barring circumcision before age 14
Some 50 lawmakers in Germany have signed on to a proposal that would bar ritual circumcision for boys under the age of 14.
Jewish groups sue NYC over circumcision rule
Orthodox Jewish groups have sued New York City to block a required warning to parents of the dangers of a ritual in which the circumciser uses his mouth to draw blood from the baby's penis.
German Cabinet schedules circumcision amendment
Germany's Cabinet has scheduled a discussion on an amendment that would formally legalize ritual circumcision but place some restrictions on who could circumcise and how.
Jewish groups weigh in on N.Y. board’s planned vote on waiver for circumcision ritual
A Conservative rabbinic group is supporting a proposed New York City Board of Health measure that requires parental consent for a controversial circumcision practice, while an Orthodox group opposes the regulation.
German state of Berlin declares circumcision legal
The state of Berlin declared circumcision legal. Berlin became the first of Germany's 16 states to declare the practice legal following a Cologne court ruling in June that non-medical circumcisions on children amounted to a criminal offense, according to the German news agency DPA.
What should Jews do about the circumcision crisis?
Tasmanian state body recommends banning nonreligious circumcision
An advisory governmental institution in an Australian state is recommending that it ban non-medical circumcision on boys "except for religious reasons."
German rabbi criminally charged for performing circumcisions
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.
Israeli chief rabbi visits Berlin on circumcision issue
Israel's chief Ashkenazi rabbi said in Berlin that medical training for mohels, or ritual circumcisers, could resolve concerns in Germany regarding circumcision of male children.
Norwegian official: Jews, Muslims should replace circumcision with ‘symbolic’ ritual
Norway’s ombudsman for children's rights has proposed that Jews and Muslim replace male circumcision with a symbolic, nonsurgical ritual.
Germans launch pro-circumcision petition
Two Jews and a Muslim in Germany have started a pro-circumcision campaign to counter a court ruling that bans the practice.
Health issue or anti-Semitism: Switzerland joins German circumcision ban
Health issue or anti-Semitism: Switzerland joins German circumcision ban
Today come reports that hospitals in Zurich and St. Gallen have suspended the practice on Jewish and Muslim boys in the wake of a similar ban in Germany ordered by a judge in Cologne.
European rabbis protest circumcision bans, plan to lobby
The Conference of European Rabbis will lobby against recent circumcision bans by advocating legislation supporting the practice.
U.S. military doctors in Germany will continue circumcision
U.S. military doctors stationed in Germany will continue to perform circumcisions despite a ruling that has roiled the country’s medical and political establishments.
July 18, 2012
Germany’s Jews won’t be punished for circumcisions
Germany’s Jews and Muslims will not be punished for breaking the law if they carry out circumcisions on young boys, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s spokesman said.
German circumcision ban unites religions, worries doctors
A German court's ban on circumcising baby boys has provoked a rare show of unity between Jews, Muslims and Christians who see it as a threat to religious freedom, while doctors warn it could increase health risks by forcing the practice underground.
Rabbis to meet in Berlin to protest circumcision ban
Jewish religious leaders will hold an international meeting in Berlin on Tuesday to discuss how to respond to a German court ruling against performing circumcision on baby boys, which also sparked protests from Muslims and Christians in Germany.
Simon Wiesenthal Center urges German Chancellor to pass law declaring circumcision legal
German court ruling on circumcision riles Jewish community
Germany’s top Jewish leader called on the federal Parliament “to ensure religious freedom” following a Cologne court ruling that said circumcising young boys on religious grounds amounts to grievous bodily harm.
June 26, 2012
N.Y. health board proposes consent waiver on circumcision rite
New York City health officials have proposed requiring that Jewish parents sign a consent waiver in order to use a controversial circumcision-related rite.
Report: Circumcision lowers prostate cancer risk
Metzitzah be-Peh and Protecting Jewish Infants
Infant boy dies after receiving herpes from circumcision procedure
Cost to keep circumcision off ballot: $100K
In the very public fight over a ballot measure aiming to ban circumcision of underage males in San Francisco, the Jewish-led coalition that succeeded in keeping the practice legal in the city spent more than six times what the ban’s proponents did.
California strikes bids to ban circumcision
California Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill that prevents the state's municipalities from banning male circumcision.
Discourage male circumcision, Dutch doctors urge
A Dutch medical association has called on politicians and human rights groups to discourage male circumcision.
Calif. legislature approves bill to prevent circumcision bans
California’s state legislature approved a bill that would prevent the state's municipalities from banning male circumcision.
Bill outlawing circumcision bans passes state legislature
Opinion: The necessity, validity of circumcision and its ritual
With the latest turnaround by a San Francisco court removing the anti-circumcision measure from its city’s upcoming ballot, all of us who advocate circumcision on religious grounds can breathe a sigh of relief.
Appeal unlikely for S.F. circumcision ban ballot measure
Time appears to have run out for the proponents of a San Francisco ballot measure that would have banned circumcision of any boy under 18 in the city.
Calif. bill would prevent anti-circumcision ballot initiatives
A bill that would prevent local communities in California from banning male circumcision was unanimously approved by the state senate's judiciary committee.
Letters to the Editor: Circumcision, Zionism, Breed Street, Dennis Prager
Letters to the editor
The aftermath of the proposed circumcision ban
With the latest turnaround by a San Francisco court removing the anti-circumcision measure from its city’s upcoming ballot...
Little-known non-cutting ritual appeals to some who oppose circumcision
In the same week in which a San Francisco judge struck from the city’s November 2011 ballot a controversial measure aiming to ban circumcision of any male under 18
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Tentative ruling confirmed: S.F. court strikes anti-circumcision measure from ballot
UPDATED: S.F. court rules to remove anti-circumcision measure from ballot
Letters to the Editor: Debt Limit, Flotilla Flop, Circumcision
Foreskin Man gets a new cartoon doppelganger: Smegma Man
Letters to the editor: Boyle Heights, Steve Zimmer, circumcision
Letters to the editor
Sleep-deprived dad and “Barefoot Intactivist” spar over circumcision science
Maybe San Francisco will wake jews up
If San Francisco succeeds in banning circumcision, some good may come of it.
Letters to the Editor: Paid Op/Ed, Spirituality, Pessimism, New Leaf, Circumcision
Paul Jeser did the right thing in buying an ad in The Jewish Journal (“I am the Guy who has Been Sending the Mails Calling for a new Editor-in-Chief”, July 1)
Could Foreskin Man keep circumcision legal in San Francisco?
Anti-circumcision: Is this equal to anti-Semitism?
Believe it or not, an American city, San Francisco, is voting to proscribe one of the central rituals of an entire religious community, the Jewish people, who have been circumcising male infants since the time of Abraham.
Foreskin Man, meet Vulva Girl
In S.F. circumcision ban battle, unusual tactics on both sides
Proposed circumcision ban not merely a parochial concern
Circumcision, or "brit milah," has long been the stuff of cheap jokes and comedy. But in recent weeks, what used to be nothing more than harmless fare has taken on a much more serious tone. So-called “intactivists” on the fringe left of American politics have pushed the radical notion that infant circumcision is an act of genital mutilation, so unacceptable in fact that it ought to be illegal.
Coalition sues to keep circumcision ban off S.F. ballot
The Jewish-led coalition working to defeat a San Francisco ballot measure that would ban circumcision there filed a lawsuit on Wednesday morning.
The great California foreskin fight of 2011
As luck would have it, the day local Jewish leaders gathered in Santa Monica to discuss the community’s response to a proposed ballot measure aimed at banning circumcision in that city was the very same day the proposition was rescinded by its proponent. Twenty-five people came to the meeting at the Milken Family Foundation offices on Fourth Street on June 6, including high-ranking Jewish professionals, local rabbis of all stripes and other Jewish community leaders.
Are the Circumcision Opponents Anti-Semitic or Sexually Repressed?
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