The practice of metzitzah b’peh, a controversial part of some Jewish circumcisions, is reigniting concern about religious circumcision in Germany, where the government only recently fended off an ...

Letters: Rabbi Dr Jonathan Romain, Ray Flynn and another reader respond to the news that the practice is classed as possible child abuse in a draft Crown Prosecution Service document ...

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. In ...

BERLIN (AP) — German lawmakers approved a bill Wednesday that explicitly permits male infant circumcision, ending months of legal uncertainty after a court ruling that the practice amounts to bodily ...

The early church earnestly considered the question of Gentile observance of Jewish law and customs. Their answer was a firm no. One day a student approached me after class with an urgent question. The ...

In the wake of a German court’s ruling in June that declared nonconsensual religious circumcision to be inflicting “bodily harm” on boys, Rabbi Marvin Hier and Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Simon ...

The controversy over male circumcisions has officially been nipped in the bud. Governor Jerry Brown on Sunday signed off on a new law that puts the kibosh on local cities and counties looking to ...