When we think of the birth of Jesus, we think of the traditional images of Christmas: the shepherds, the angels, the farm animals jostling to see the Christ child, the swift removal of his foreskin a ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (RNS) A 30-year-old Portland woman who botched a home circumcision of her 3-month-old son has been sentenced to five years of probation. Keemonta Peterson was arrested last April after ...

We read in this week’s parasha, Tazria, “On the eighth day the flesh of the foreskin shall be circumcised” (Leviticus 12:3). This comes in a section of Torah about regulations regarding mothers and ...

health benefits of male circumcision. Most Jewish people I know have strong feelings about male circumcision—-whether they have male children or not. I am sure my parents (who had two boys) felt as ...

(RNS) The National Association of Evangelicals is siding with Jews and Muslims in opposition of a proposed ban on infant male circumcision in San Francisco. “Jews, Muslims, and Christians all trace ...

The circumcision of Jewish boys is one of the world's oldest rites of passage ceremonies. It is described in Genesis, the first book of the Old Testament, in a passage in which God tells Abraham that ...

We have secularized the ancient Jewish rite—but it is still inescapably religious. The year 1999 brought me one of my most memorable moments. Because my grandson was born at home, hospital ...

The National Association of Evangelicals is joining Jews and Muslims in opposition to the proposed ban on circumcision of male children in San Francisco. “Jews, Muslims, and Christians all trace our ...

Circumcision is not just a religious act, it is also the most common surgical procedure carried out in the United States for supposedly medical reasons. The claim, sometimes made, is that newborn male ...