circumcision

Ideas

I’m a traveling mohel. My colleague’s unprecedented arrest in Ireland has shaken me to my core.

An Israeli rabbi who travels abroad to circumcise Jewish babies wonders why Ireland is cracking down on a ritual sacred for Jews.

These Jews want to normalize not circumcising — and they want synagogues to help

Bruchim wants to see synagogues make proactive statements of welcome for non-circumcising families similar to those that have become common toward Jews of color and LGBT+ Jews.

Neo-Nazis, QAnon and Camp Auschwitz: A guide to the hate symbols and signs on display at the Capitol riots

Here’s what you need to know about them and the movements they represent.

Politics

2020 Democratic candidate Andrew Yang takes a stand against circumcision

Global

Danish committee OKs draft resolution calling to ban circumcision

Global

Circumcising babies increases risk of cot death, contested new study suggests

Global

Danish parliament set to debate proposal to ban circumcision

Global

Leading House members urge Iceland to back down on circumcision ban

Global

Iceland is getting its first resident rabbi in decades

United States

Jewish landlord removes Swedish artist’s giant penis mural from Lower East Side building

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