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Illustrative photo of a ritual circumcision (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 16, 2026, 5:01 pm
US ambassador to Belgium urges nation to drop charges over illegal circumcisions
Accusations against three mohels for acting without medical license are ‘antisemitic,’ Bill White says; European Commission also seeking a solution to impasse over Jewish ritual
By Zev Stub
Illustrative photo of a ritual circumcision (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 11, 2026, 1:04 pm
Circumcision could be child abuse if done wrong, UK draft guidelines say — report
Jewish community activist tells the Guardian that document’s wording is ‘misleading,’ would ‘very much expect’ it to be excluded from Crown Prosecution Service’s final draft
By ToI Staff
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks during an event with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House, October 10, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
October 11, 2025, 11:10 am
RFK Jr. accused of antisemitism over claim that ‘early’ circumcisions lead to autism
Nadler urges colleagues to ‘clearly denounce’ health secretary’s ‘antisemitic remark’ about child circumcision and subsequent Tylenol use; scientists decry lack of evidence for claim
By PHILISSA CRAMER
Author Gary Shteyngart holds a cucumber in the short documentary "The Man Who Got Cut Wrong." (Screenshot via 'The New Yorker' on YouTube)
October 1, 2025, 8:09 am
Gary Shteyngart reflects on botched circumcision in new short film
Documentary is based on 2021 New Yorker essay about the events surrounding the procedure the Jewish author underwent as a 7-year-old immigrant from Russia
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Illustrative photo of a ritual circumcision (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 14, 2025, 6:52 pm
Belgium’s Jewish community on edge after police raids on illegal circumcisions
Police in Antwerp looking for rabbis conducting the religious rite without medical license; Jewish group says raids part of larger campaign of intimidation against Jews in Belgium
By Zev Stub
Elon Musk waves to supporters during a town hall Sunday, March 30, 2025, in Green Bay, Wisconsin. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps)
April 17, 2025, 7:18 pm
Elon Musk asked Ashley St. Clair not to circumcise their Jewish son – report
WSJ also reports that billionaire Trump adviser asked the right-wing influencer, who announced last month she’d given birth to his child last year, to have a C-section
By Grace Gilson
Illustrative: A mohel arranges tools for a circumcision ceremony. (Getty Images via JTA)
August 2, 2024, 11:41 am
London rabbi held in Ireland for alleged unlicensed circumcision
Prosecution of Jonathan Abraham, a certified mohel according to his lawyer, prompts claims that the move is excessive and motivated by antisemitism
By Canaan Lidor
File - Oded Forer, chair of Knesset Committee for Immigration, Absorption and Diaspora Affairs, attends a committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem on January 19, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 23, 2024, 4:34 pm
Government failure to arrange circumcisions delays conversion to Judaism for 98 men
A soldier fighting in Gaza nearly spent NIS 7,000 of his own money to finalize the process, an activist representing him says
By Canaan Lidor
Supreme Court building, Jerusalem (original image via iStock, composite image by The Times of Israel)
December 13, 2023, 2:45 pm
Non-Orthodox converts to Judaism eligible for free circumcision, High Court rules
Decision ends a 14-year legal struggle for treatment equal to that of males who undergo Orthodox conversion
By Canaan Lidor
Rabbi Moshe Aryeh Friedman. (Courtesy)
November 21, 2023, 2:11 pm
Antwerp rabbi files police complaint against 6 circumcisers who suck blood by mouth
Moshe Aryeh Friedman, whom many in Belgian Jewish community consider a gadfly, says that the custom known as ‘metzitzah b’peh’ is dangerous and unnecessary
By Canaan Lidor
Katharina von Schnurbein speaks at a European Jewish Congress event in Vienna, in this undated photo. (Courtesy)
June 26, 2023, 9:23 am
How the EU antisemitism warrior became a defender of kosher slaughter, circumcision
The bloc’s point person for fighting Jew-hatred, Katharina von Schnurbein, is an influential advocate for Jewish customs many consider controversial in Europe
By Canaan Lidor
Illustrative: A man examines his pants with a magnifying glass (Juleta Martirosyan; iStock by Getty Images)
May 19, 2023, 10:41 am
A single absentee mohel is thwarting dozens of converts at very end of their journey
The government’s Conversion Authority has a long backlog of men waiting for months for a 10-second circumcision inspection to be considered Jewish
By Canaan Lidor
Illustrative: The Nahariya cemetery in 2019 (iStock)
January 25, 2023, 9:58 pm
Burial worker circumcises body in northern Israel without family’s consent
Colleague claims manager told religious volunteer to perform ritual ‘without thinking twice’; head of burial society denies incident occurred
By Avner Hofstein
Zvi Levran in a booking photo at Oakland County Jail on November 11, 2022. (Oakland County Sherriff's Office)
November 18, 2022, 12:58 am
Michigan youth hockey doctor, mohel accused of widespread sexual assault
Police say they have received 33 additional complaints against Zvi Levran since his October arrest after being accused of molesting teen at his home office
By AP
Illustrative image of a brit mila in Jerusalem, December 12 , 2011. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
October 11, 2021, 4:10 am
New US Jewish group aims to normalize not circumcising, wants synagogues to help
Bruchim says it is giving a voice to those who seek other ways to join the Jewish covenant; retorts a Conservative rabbi: Brit milah ‘is about as basic to Judaism as you can get’
By Ben Harris
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