The most high-profile New York Times reporting duo covering the Trump White House were once fierce rivals in New York’s high-stakes City Hall tabloid culture — until they bonded over the surprise discovery that they’re both Jewish. Maggie Haberman, then with the New York Post, and Glenn Thrush, then with Newsday, refused to speak to…
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration has ordered two mohels to stop performing an “unsafe” circumcision rite after they were linked to herpes in babies. But The New York Post reports the city would not reveal the names of the mohels who carry out the rite of metzitzah b’peh, or sucking on the…
(JTA) — A proposal to support a ban on ritual circumcision and label it child abuse is splitting the leadership of a liberal party in Norway, which supports outreach to Muslim immigrants. Socialist Left Party secretary Kari Elisabeth Kaski will push for language supporting the ban in the party’s official platform during a general assembly meeting this…
A Canadian undertaker living in the woods wrote to a local mom and offered to circumcise her son – but he should have had more foresight. Josh Chubbs, 23, is charged with performing and promoting unlicensed medical practice, according to CBC News. The mother said Chubbs was an acquaintance, according to CBC, which did not…
Republican presidential front runner Donald Trump skipped his new grandson’s bris to continue campaigning in Wisconsin. The bris of Theodore James Kushner took place in New York on Sunday. He is the son of Trump’s daughter, Ivanka, and son-in-law Jared Kushner. Ivanka Trump converted to Orthodox Judaism in 2009 in order to marry her husband,…
The Health Ministry plans to issue a detailed pamphlet on the medical pros and cons of circumcision, after years of avoiding the issue. The pamphlet, to be given to all new parents, will advise against the oral suction method (“metzitzah b’peh”) used by some mohels (ritual circumcisers) to draw blood from the wound after the foreskin…
(JTA) — They warn you that parenting means doing a bunch of stuff you never imagined yourself doing. I had always assumed this applied to saying to children things like, “You watch your tone of voice, young lady” or, “Let’s not eat things we find in our underwear.” But in my case, the moment came…
On a hot spring morning in the Zimbabwean capital of Harare, Modreck Maeresera is packing up for a trip at his quiet suburban home. Maeresera is a leader of Zimbabwe’s Lemba community, which claims Jewish roots. He is preparing for a mission to the United States that he hopes will deepen the community’s Jewish practice…
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