This article originally appeared on VICE US. In 1979, two thirds of newborn boys in Western countries were circumcised, but rates of circumcision plunged in the ensuing years. In 2010, 58 percent of ...
The hospital-circumcision contingent believes that a medical facility is the only appropriate place for surgery. If something goes wrong—excessive bleeding, infections, an accident—a hospital has ...
A state judge has denied a request by the Forward seeking the name of a mohel who is believed to have infected a baby with herpes during a ritual circumcision. Supreme Court Justice Timothy Dufficy ...
No matter who performs a circumcision—an obstetrician at the hospital, or a mohel at a bris—the operation is more or less the same every time. So how does it work? First comes anesthetic, at least in ...