The Obama administration’s anti-Semitism monitor has added an issue to his office’s portfolio: defending circumcision in Europe. Circumcision has become a top focus for Ira Forman, the State ...

(RNS) — As European governments have woken to the need to fight anti-Semitism, they should adopt a common approach to guarantee this religious practice. (RNS) — In a decade that has witnessed lethal ...

The Obama administration’s anti-Semitism monitor has added an issue to his office’s portfolio: defending circumcision in Europe. Circumcision has become a top focus for Ira Forman, the State ...

The Council of Europe refuted reports in Israeli media that it had canceled a resolution from 2013 that called nonmedical circumcision of boys a harmful violation of children’s rights. The ...

BERLIN (AP) — A group of Orthodox rabbis warned Wednesday that the ancient Jewish practice of infant male circumcision could face further restrictions in Europe after some hospitals in Austria and ...

“To somehow label male circumcision, a tradition practiced by Jewish and Muslim communities for thousands of years, a ‘human rights violation’ is ludicrous and offensive. “Even more disconcerting is ...

VIENNA, July 25 (Reuters) - Jewish religious leaders in Europe will fight a creeping movement to ban the circumcision of infant boys that has spread to Austria and Switzerland after a regional court ...

The language was added and then removed in committee to legislation targeting female genital mutilation. In explaining her position on a custom that most of the country seems to oppose, Mette ...