I have stood with thousands of families at one of the most moving and ancient moments in Jewish life: the entry of a baby boy ...

The European Jewish Association (EJA) has launched an urgent and coordinated campaign to defend Brit Milah, the Jewish religious circumcision of infant boys, in response to deeply concerning police ...

The anti-circumcision crusade is not really about medicine. It is about discomfort with Jewish distinctiveness. The real scandal is that less than a century after Europe tried to exterminate the Jews, ...

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.

(JTA) — British Jews are weighing in after authorities said they are considering deeming some circumcisions “a form of child abuse” following deaths from the procedure. The Crown Prosecution Service, ...

U.S. Ambassador to Belgium Bill White. Credit: U.S. Department of State. The U.S. ambassador to Belgium, Bill White, on Monday criticized what he termed local authorities’ “antisemitic harassment” of ...

In the 1960s and ’70s, the San Francisco Bay Area was where the counterculture really started — the Free Speech Movement in Berkeley, the Summer of Love in Haight-Ashbury, gay rights in the Castro.