Though I was not immune to the speculation that circumcision could possibly be harmful to my baby, I felt deeply that G-d was looking out for my son's reproductive organ.
Filmmaker and photographer Jeffrey Braverman takes a deeper look at San Francisco's recently proposed circumcision ban in a promising new documentary ...
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.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Associated Press) — California's governor has signed a bill that that will prevent local governments from banning male circumcis...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- A California Senate committee unanimously approved a bill Tuesday to block local jurisdictions from banning male circumcision, a...
As you might expect, Captain Israel has issues with Foreskin Man. And here's the proof.
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...
SAN FRANCISCO — Two California lawmakers have introduced a bill that would pre-empt local governments from passing laws banning male circumcisio...
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...
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...
By Lauren Markoe c. 2011 Religion News Service (RNS) Though national and local Jewish groups have strongly condemned San Francisco's proposed ban ...
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.
DENVER -- A nationwide debate about circumcisions for newborn boys, combined with cash-strapped public health budgets, has Colorado taking sides with ...
DENVER -- Colorado will end coverage for routine circumcisions under Medicaid next month, adding to what's become a national debate over the once wide...
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...
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.
CNN contributor LZ Granderson got it right. Keep the government out of a family's decision to circumcise, he says.
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...
Mazel Tov to Natalie Portman and Benjamin Millepied on the birth of their son.
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...
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.
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?
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...
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.
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...
