Tag: Circumcision
It’s been a while since we’ve heard anything about Metzitzah B’peh, the controversial Orthodox Jewish practice that involves a rabbi sucking (with his mouth) the blood from an infant boy’s penis after circumcising him. At a Jewish Press-sponsored forum last night, a few of the 2013 mayoral candidates got to sound off on the very […]
Ah, it’s been a while since we’ve gotten any updates on metzitzah b’peh, the ultra-Orthodox Jewish practice that finds Rabbis using their mouths to suck the blood from infants’ freshly-circumcised penises and has led to fatal contractions of herpes simplex virus. Back in September, New York City’s Board of Health ruled that rabbis who wanted to […]
