NEW YORK – New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration is negotiating with a group of ultra-Orthodox Jews over how to regulate an age-old circumcision ritual while still preserving religious ...

Circumcision of newborn babies is an ultra-Orthodox Jewish practice known as metzitzah b’peh that dates back more than 5,000 years. The Daily Mail reported that two more babies have been stricken with ...

Well, this will certainly add fuel to the "intactivist" movement! According to the CDC, between 2000 and 2011 a total of 11 baby Jewish boys in New York City were infected with herpes after having ...

New York City's Board of Health voted Thursday to require parental consent for a form of circumcision that involves oral suction, a ritual practiced by some ultra-Orthodox Jews. The board voted 9-0 to ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — New York City's Board of Health has voted to consider Mayor Bill de Blasio's plan to resolve a dispute with the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community over a tradition known as ...

Two more infants were diagnosed with herpes in New York this month after undergoing ritual Jewish circumcisions, the Health Department says. In both cases, the infant boys were born to mothers with ...

Two Jewish infants in New Jersey were recently infected with — but survived — a herpes virus attributed to their ritual circumcisers’ use of an oral suctioning technique that is said to have caused ...

Some Hasidic Jews practice “metzitzah b’peh,” in which the mohel — the specially trained person performing the circumcision — uses oral suction “to draw blood from the area of the circumcision wound.” ...

Signed consent forms will no longer be required for people who perform an ultra-Orthodox Jewish tradition known as oral suction circumcision, the city Board of Health decreed Wednesday. The vote to ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The city said Tuesday it has reached a tentative agreement with members of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community over a tradition known as oral suction circumcision. Health officials ...