A long-simmering dispute over a controversial circumcision procedure with allegedly life-threatening risks will land like a hot potato on the desk of incoming New York state Governor Eliot Spitzer ...
A state judge has denied a request by the Forward seeking the name of a mohel who is believed to have infected a baby with herpes during a ritual circumcision. Supreme Court Justice Timothy Dufficy ...
(CN) - A New York City newspaper cannot have the name of the mohel who infected a baby boy with the herpes simplex virus during a circumcision ritual, a state appeals court ruled. After the infection, ...
The hospital-circumcision contingent believes that a medical facility is the only appropriate place for surgery. If something goes wrong—excessive bleeding, infections, an accident—a hospital has ...
The rite of circumcision is the latest Jewish ritual to be upended by the coronavirus outbreak. The Conservative movement and some mohels are saying that because of the highly infectious nature of ...
The death of one infant boy from herpes and the infection of two others has focused attention on an ancient practice that is still used in some fervently Orthodox communities as they circumcise babies ...
No matter who performs a circumcision—an obstetrician at the hospital, or a mohel at a bris—the operation is more or less the same every time. So how does it work? First comes anesthetic, at least in ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — In the line of work that Dotan Herszage is in, a few tears, some blood and the occasional fainting spell are all part of the job. As a mohel, Herszage, of Columbus, Ohio, has ...
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