NYC health board wants Jewish parents to sign circumcision waiver
Wednesday, June 13th, 2012Controversy surrounding a Jewish rite of circumcision among a small minority of Jews, where the person performing a newborn’s circumcision, called a mohel, uses a tradition called a metzitzah b’peh in which mohels use oral suction to suck blood from the circumcision wound, has left some infants with disease or even death. The oral suction ... read more »






