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Topic: circumcision ban

March 29, 2013
10:04 pm

Illustrative photo of an Ultra-Orthodox Jewish man holding a chicken later to be slaughtered as part of a Kaparot ritual (photo credit: Pierre Terdjman /Flash90)

Poll: 45 percent of Britons favor banning ritual slaughter

38% of respondents say they also support ban on non-medical circumcision

February 22, 2013
11:39 pm

A rabbi performs a circumcision on an 8-day-old Jewish boy (illustrative photo: Max Yelinson/Flash90)

German prosecutor drops charges against circumciser

‘Good news,’ says rabbi who was indicted after a Cologne court ruled to ban ritual last year

November 29, 2012
1:58 am

In some Israeli families, circumcision gets the cut

From the web Growing numbers of parents are opting out of the religious rite, Reuters reports

October 31, 2012
5:25 pm

Circumcision: The rite so nice, I did it twice

No matter how you slice it, converting to Judaism is a moumental decision

By Gedalyah Reback

October 10, 2012
1:39 pm

Tools for a circumcision procedure used at a recent ceremony in a Hasidic court in Jerusalem (photo credit: Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

German government okays bill to legalize ritual circumcisions

Bundestag widely expected to vote the proposal into law soon, freeing ‘mohels’ from the threat of prosecution

By Raphael Ahren

October 4, 2012
5:16 pm

Jews perform a religious circumcision. (illustrative photo: Serge Attal/Flash90)

Three months after circumcision ban, German government to legalize rite

Cabinet will approve a bill allowing professionally trained mohels to perform brit milah

By Raphael Ahren

October 2, 2012
5:51 pm

Finnish party plans new bill to ban circumcision

Local Jews don’t expect proposal to be enacted in near future

September 27, 2012
12:17 am

German Justice Ministry seeks fix for circumcision ban

Proposal would allow trained religious practitioners to conduct procedure

September 25, 2012
2:18 pm

The teddy bear in Norway

A new threat for the Jews of Europe

By Abraham Cooper

September 24, 2012
1:32 pm

Parano-Semitism, or ‘Paranoid Jew Syndrome’

Like anti-Semites of old, parano-Semites hold themselves out as extremely keen on exposing the hidden, nefarious ways of those they fear and yearn to expose

By Dov Frishberg

September 13, 2012
6:45 pm

Berlin residents wear kippot in solidarity with a local rabbi who was brutally attacked in August (photo credit: AP/Michael Gottschalk)

German police to investigate Jewish officer who wore kippa while in uniform

Haifa-born Tuvia Schlesinger, who has been serving in the Berlin police for 32 years, said to have violated the force’s neutrality rules in showing solidarity with the local Jewish community

By Raphael Ahren

September 11, 2012
5:28 pm

This Rosh Hashanah, pray for Muslim-Jewish peace

Muslims and Jews are already engaged in cooperative efforts to fight laws targeting our common religious rites, but in the spirit of Isaac and Ishmael, there is so much more to be done

By Marc Schneier

September 10, 2012
12:28 pm

Two bulls in a china shop? Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger (right) and Interior Minister Eli Yishai (photo credit: Uri Lenz/Flash90)

Israel, don’t capsize the Jewish people’s boat

The thorny debate about circumcision requires graceful measures – not the bumbling intervention of government officials

By Nadia Ellis and Dov Maimon

September 9, 2012
11:41 pm

Circumcision debate in Germany brings together Jews, Muslims in protest

From the web Hundreds rally in Berlin against anti-circumcision rules, Global Post reports

September 6, 2012
8:02 pm

German Jews reject Berlin’s okay of doctors’ circumcisions

‘This interim solution doesn’t help us,’ council head says. City’s Jewish hospital says it will resume performing the rite, having stopped in June

By Raphael Ahren

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The Times of Israel

The one-stop news site
covering Israel, the region and
the Jewish people worldwide

Founding editor:
David Horovitz

Fair, fresh and fast

The Jewish world's
fastest-growing
news site

Topic: circumcision ban

Poll: 45 percent of Britons favor banning ritual slaughter

38% of respondents say they also support ban on non-medical circumcision

German prosecutor drops charges against circumciser

‘Good news,’ says rabbi who was indicted after a Cologne court ruled to ban ritual last year

In some Israeli families, circumcision gets the cut

From the web Growing numbers of parents are opting out of the religious rite, Reuters reports

Circumcision: The rite so nice, I did it twice

No matter how you slice it, converting to Judaism is a moumental decision

German government okays bill to legalize ritual circumcisions

Bundestag widely expected to vote the proposal into law soon, freeing ‘mohels’ from the threat of prosecution

Three months after circumcision ban, German government to legalize rite

Cabinet will approve a bill allowing professionally trained mohels to perform brit milah

Finnish party plans new bill to ban circumcision

Local Jews don’t expect proposal to be enacted in near future

German Justice Ministry seeks fix for circumcision ban

Proposal would allow trained religious practitioners to conduct procedure

The teddy bear in Norway

A new threat for the Jews of Europe

Parano-Semitism, or ‘Paranoid Jew Syndrome’

Like anti-Semites of old, parano-Semites hold themselves out as extremely keen on exposing the hidden, nefarious ways of those they fear and yearn to expose

German police to investigate Jewish officer who wore kippa while in uniform

Haifa-born Tuvia Schlesinger, who has been serving in the Berlin police for 32 years, said to have violated the force’s neutrality rules in showing solidarity with the local Jewish community

This Rosh Hashanah, pray for Muslim-Jewish peace

Muslims and Jews are already engaged in cooperative efforts to fight laws targeting our common religious rites, but in the spirit of Isaac and Ishmael, there is so much more to be done

Israel, don’t capsize the Jewish people’s boat

The thorny debate about circumcision requires graceful measures – not the bumbling intervention of government officials

Circumcision debate in Germany brings together Jews, Muslims in protest

From the web Hundreds rally in Berlin against anti-circumcision rules, Global Post reports

German Jews reject Berlin’s okay of doctors’ circumcisions

‘This interim solution doesn’t help us,’ council head says. City’s Jewish hospital says it will resume performing the rite, having stopped in June

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