The practice of metzitzah b’peh, a controversial part of some Jewish circumcisions, is reigniting concern about religious circumcision in Germany, where the government only recently fended off an ...

BERLIN (AP) – German lawmakers approved a bill Wednesday that explicitly permits male infant circumcision, ending months of legal uncertainty after a court ruling that the practice amounts to bodily ...

The German Parliament passed a law protecting the right of Jewish and Muslim parents to choose a ritual circumcision for their sons, after months of heated debate over efforts to ban the practice. In ...

Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. The German parliament voted Wednesday to keep male circumcision legal, ending an international controversy that started when a Cologne ...

During the past decade, life has become more difficult for Jews in Europe. They are not only the victims of a rise in anti-Semitic violence and intimidation, mostly as a result of the growing numbers ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. In a Thursday, June 14, 2012 photo an Israeli woman prays with her son in a reformist Jewish synagogue, in Mevasseret Zion near ...

Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. BERLIN -- The German cabinet approved a bill on Wednesday to make circumcision legal, a major step toward ending a controversy that ...

The doctor, the mother and the child all dealt with the physical complications from a circumcision on November 4, 2010. But no one was prepared for what erupted this summer, nearly two years later. A ...

PARIS (Reuters) - A widely criticized German court verdict on religious circumcision this week aims only to delay the act, not ban it, and is not directed against any faith, a jurist with a leading ...

BERLIN - A German court's decision that ritual circumcision amounts to criminal bodily harm threatens religious freedom in Europe, a group of European Orthodox rabbis said Thursday. The ruling, handed ...

Circumcisions have been virtually suspended in Germany for the past four months. The practice was effectively banned after a regional court in Cologne ruled that circumcision amounts to assault. That ...