5/5 (2) Original article available above. Rani Kasher decided not to circumcise his third son after conducting research; he is now an anti-circumcision activist and plans on writing a book on it. by Adi Reshef Why do we circumcise our baby … Read More
Tom Farley at City Hall in 2009. (AP Photo/Richard Drew) Former city health commissioner Tom Farley thinks it was a mistake for the current board of health to repeal consent forms that had been required before metzitzah b’peh, the controversial circumcision … Read More
Pan-European body maintains position that a brit milah violates children’s rights BY JTA October 10, 2015, 5:55 am 24 Illustrative photo of Jews performing a religious circumcision. (Serge Attal/Flash90) The Council of Europe is maintaining its position that non-medical circumcision … Read More
The Council of Europe refuted reports in Israeli media that it had canceled a resolution from 2013 that called nonmedical circumcision of boys a harmful violation of children’s rights. The clarification Thursday on the position of the Council, a body … Read More
09 Oct 2015 – 03:10PM | By Marco Ferrari The closure of a circumcision clinic in Hyde has sparked a backlash from the local Muslim community, claiming the closure is an ‘attack on the practice of their religious beliefs’. An online petition … Read More
August 13, 2015 The Norwegian medical community’s strong opposition to circumcision of baby boys has kept Norway’s state-funded hospitals from offering the controversial operations under a new law allowing them. The government expected demand for around 2,000 circumcisions a year in Norway, but newspaper Dagsavisenreports that … Read More
Following up the reports that Malawi24 released on 25 July that circumcision does not help in the reduction of HIV but exacerbates it, reports have emerged that have agreed with the facts that we had earlier established. Medecins Sans Frontieres … Read More
Research conducted in Malawi revealed that circumcised men were the ones with a high prevalence of HIV rate in Malawi, Malawi24 can reveal. The research which was conducted long before the championing of the circumcision campaign dispelled the assumptions that … Read More
by Lisa Braver Moss Posted on Jul. 8, 2015 at 10:52 am Lisa Braver Moss Though the prospect of circumcising a baby boy typically causes some anxiety, Jewish parents most often to go through with it. Circumcision is a concrete symbol … Read More
My 3-and-a-half-year-old son sleeps. He slumbers peacefully in dreamland. When I hear him call my name, I go to him. He can trust that I am here. Another little one — just a year older than my son — slumbers … Read More