Filmmaker and photographer Jeffrey Braverman takes a deeper look at San Francisco's recently proposed circumcision ban in a promising new documentary ...
S.R. Hewitt | Posted 12.10.2011
There are few aspects of Jewish life that have been debated as heatedly as circumcision. It's physical. It's permanent. It effects an area of the body that most people today won't even discuss in proper company.
Associated Press | Posted 12.02.2011
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Associated Press) — California's governor has signed a bill that that will prevent local governments from banning male circumcis...
AP | By ADAM WEINTRAUB | Posted 10.24.2011
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- A California Senate committee unanimously approved a bill Tuesday to block local jurisdictions from banning male circumcision, a...
John Shore | Posted 10.03.2011
As you might expect, Captain Israel has issues with Foreskin Man. And here's the proof.
Posted 09.25.2011
A coalition including Jewish and Muslim groups have launched a lawsuit challenging a proposed ban on circumcision that is due to go before San Francis...
AP | JASON DEAREN | Posted 09.20.2011
SAN FRANCISCO — Two California lawmakers have introduced a bill that would pre-empt local governments from passing laws banning male circumcisio...
Posted 09.17.2011
By Christina Jewett The ACLU of Northern California filed a court brief Friday supporting an effort to block a ballot measure that would ban ju...
Posted 09.04.2011
By Lauren Markoe Religion News Service (RNS) In a potential blow to the proposed San Francisco circumcision ban, the city's top lawyer has conclud...
Posted 09.04.2011
By Lauren Markoe c. 2011 Religion News Service (RNS) Though national and local Jewish groups have strongly condemned San Francisco's proposed ban ...
Susan Auerbach | Posted 08.30.2011
In this welcoming of our baby into the Jewish community, I found catharsis after the trauma and isolation of birth. We emerged from the raw, postpartum state into the warmth of society.
AP | By IVAN MORENO | Posted 08.24.2011
DENVER -- A nationwide debate about circumcisions for newborn boys, combined with cash-strapped public health budgets, has Colorado taking sides with ...
AP | Posted 08.23.2011
DENVER -- Colorado will end coverage for routine circumcisions under Medicaid next month, adding to what's become a national debate over the once wide...
AP | TERENCE CHEA | Posted 08.22.2011
SAN FRANCISCO — An unlikely coalition of Jews and Muslims on Wednesday filed a lawsuit to block a San Francisco ballot measure that would ban th...
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 08.20.2011
San Francisco is supposed to be the city of live-and-let-live even as it now betrays a curious attachment to the male foreskin, with its ludicrous attempt to punish its large Jewish community for simply honoring the oldest of all Jewish practices and rituals.
Ken Blackwell | Posted 08.16.2011
CNN contributor LZ Granderson got it right. Keep the government out of a family's decision to circumcise, he says.
Posted 08.15.2011
A new bill aims to cut short a proposed ban on circumcision in San Francisco. US. Representative Brad Sherman (D-Calif.) will introduce the Religi...
Rabbi Jason Miller | Posted 08.15.2011
Mazel Tov to Natalie Portman and Benjamin Millepied on the birth of their son.
Posted 08.10.2011
By Adelle M. Banks Religion News Service (RNS) The National Association of Evangelicals is siding with Jews and Muslims in opposition of a proposed b...
Rabbi David Wolpe | Posted 08.09.2011
I thought we were done. Jew hatred was the attention grabbing remnant of an earlier world. We had moved on -- Judaism was now about who we are, not about what others think. Foolish youth.
Mike Ghouse | Posted 08.07.2011
We have to speak out against this move through the ballot box in November this year. We cannot let anyone infringe on the freedom of the other, where does it end?
HuffingtonPost.com | Catherine Pearson | Posted 08.06.2011
San Francisco voters won't be able to vote on a proposed ban on circumcision until November. But anticircumcision activists hail the fact that the bil...
Lisa Derrick | Posted 08.06.2011
Words and images just got sharper in the battle against circumcision, as Matt Hess released the second issue of his comic book, "Foreskin Man." It's creepy. And, some feel, anti-Semitic.
Associated Press | The Associated Press | Posted 07.19.2011
A proposal to ban the circumcision of male children in San Francisco has been cleared to appear on the November ballot, setting the stage for the nati...
AP | ROBIN HINDERY | Posted 07.18.2011
SAN FRANCISCO — A proposal to ban the circumcision of male children in San Francisco has been cleared to appear on the November ballot, setting ...
Posted 02.01.2012