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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 592

metzitzah b’peh

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
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio attends protests in support of the Jewish community called No Hate No Fear at the Brooklyn Bridge on January 5, 2020 in New York City. (Kena Betancur / AFP)
May 5, 2020, 3:17 am
NYC mayor who blasted Hasidic funeral has close ties with community
Bill de Blasio made friends among ultra-Orthodox leaders with position on controversial circumcision practice, but has been criticized for slow response to anti-Semitic violence
By Shira Hanau
Illustrative: A baby after the brit milah ceremony (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)
April 20, 2017, 6:11 am
NY: Jewish families won’t identify circumcisers who gave babies herpes
Health Department says Orthodox relatives of infected infants refusing to reveal names, obstructing investigation
By JTA
Illustrative: A baby after the brit milah ceremony (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)
April 1, 2017, 5:32 am
NYC to automatically ban mohels linked to newborn herpes cases
24 cases allegedly contracted by sucking blood directly through circumcision wound reported since 2000
By JTA
Illustrative: A baby after the brit milah ceremony (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)
March 9, 2017, 8:57 pm
New York baby contracts herpes from circumcision rite
NYC Board of Health reports infant hospitalized due to infection from mohel sucking blood directly from wound
By JTA
New York mayor Bill de Blasio (Courtesy BilldeBlasio.com)
October 9, 2015, 10:30 pm
NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio to visit Israel, talk anti-Semitism
Mayor to be keynote speaker at conference of international mayors sponsored by American Jewish Congress, other Jewish groups
By JTA
Illustrative: Abraham Romi Cohn performs the 'metzitzah b'peh' ritual at a circumcision in New York, February 11, 2015. (AP/Seth Wenig)
September 9, 2015, 11:16 pm
NYC Board of Health repeals regulations on circumcision rite
After spate of herpes cases, consent form had been required for ritual that sees blood sucked from wound after foreskin is removed
By JTA
Illustrative: Abraham Romi Cohn performs the 'metzitzah b'peh' ritual at a circumcision in New York, February 11, 2015. (AP/Seth Wenig)
June 11, 2015, 11:32 pm
NYC Board of Health to review circumcision rite
Mayor Bill de Blasio considers waiving consent form for controversial ritual to mend ties with ultra-Orthodox
By JTA
Harry Maryles
March 1, 2015, 12:37 pm
Harry Maryles
A win for Herpes
New York’s decision to permit oral suction in circumcisions without informed parental consent is disappointing
Illustrative: Abraham Romi Cohn performs the 'metzitzah b'peh' ritual at a circumcision in New York, February 11, 2015. (AP/Seth Wenig)
February 25, 2015, 6:38 pm
NYC, Orthodox Jews agree on circumcision practices
To combat herpes in infants, NYC mayor to force mohels to get consent before performing ‘oral suction’
By Verena Dobnik
Illustrative: Abraham Romi Cohn performs the 'metzitzah b'peh' ritual at a circumcision in New York, February 11, 2015. (AP/Seth Wenig)
February 22, 2015, 2:39 am
NYC, Orthodox Jews clash over oral circumcision rite
City warns of risks of metzitzah b’peh after multiple herpes cases, but rabbis insist there’s no danger
By Verena Dobnik
Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Dr. Thomas Frieden (left), testifies during a hearing on Ebola, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, October 16, 2014. (photo credit: Alex Wong/Getty Images/AFP)
October 17, 2014, 11:37 am
Former ‘whiz kid’ now Ebola’s public face, and possible scapegoat
CDC head Tom Frieden, known for spearheading NY ban on trans fats, accused of overconfidence after nurses contract deadly disease
By Anne Flaherty
A circumcision performed at home. (photo credit: courtesy)
August 19, 2014, 5:52 pm
Federal court demands ‘strict scrutiny’ of NY metzitzah b’peh law
Lower court ruling in January 2013 is not rigid enough in permitting the city to proceed with parental consent forms
By JTA
Illustrative photo of ritual Jewish circumcision. (Max Yelinson/Flash90)
July 25, 2014, 2:00 pm
Two infants diagnosed with herpes after ‘metzitzah b’peh’
Since 2012 the NY health department requires parents to sign a consent form prior to controversial Jewish circumcision practice
By JTA
Illustrative: Tools for a circumcision procedure. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)
July 13, 2014, 3:04 pm
Canadian mohel/doctor cleared of ‘sexual motive’
Circumcision ritual involves a tradition of sucking blood out of a baby’s penis following cut
By JTA
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