The questions came from the two young daughters of Rabbi Moshe Lieblich and his wife, Chana Lieblich, directors of Chabad of Wilmington, the area's Hasidic Lubavitch synagogue. The little girls ...

(CN) - A New York City newspaper cannot have the name of the mohel who infected a baby boy with the herpes simplex virus during a circumcision ritual, a state appeals court ruled. After the infection, ...

New York City is investigating the death last September of a baby who contracted herpes after a "ritual circumcision with oral suction," in an ultra-Orthodox Jewish ceremony known in Hebrew as ...

As I was anticipating the recent birth of my newborn son, news broke that anti-circumcision activists (or “intactivists” as they refer to themselves) had begun circulating a petition to introduce a ...

Andrea and Alan Ni, both Christian, hired a mohel, Philip Sherman (right), to perform a bris for their son Lachlan. Angel Chevrestt Many non-Jews can go an entire lifetime without sipping Manischewitz ...

When Dr. Debra Weiss-Ishai watched her son’s brit milah two years ago, she thought to herself, I could do this better. Not just technically, although as a pediatrician she had done numerous medical ...

Bubbe Susan cradles sleeping Ryan, not yet two weeks old, in her arms and will not give him up to other relatives. The little guy is utterly and completely at peace, his mouth slack and one arm draped ...

There are a few questions Max Mintz gets all the time. A retired Houston-area pediatrician who works as a mohel, or Jewish ritual circumciser, Mintz has circumcised 9,700 babies during the past 30 ...

New York City is investigating the death last September of a baby who contracted herpes after a "ritual circumcision with oral suction," in an ultra-Orthodox Jewish ceremony known in Hebrew as ...