A Florida woman's years-long battle against her child's father over the boy's circumcision ended Friday with her agreeing to the procedure in exchange for her release from jail. In a remarkable ...

It's probably the most common surgical procedure in the United States. Every year about 1.2 million baby boys have the foreskin removed from their penis soon after birth. But over the past 30 years, ...

Changing its longstanding neutrality on the issue of circumcision, the American Academy of Pediatrics suggested recently that the health benefits of the procedure outweigh its risks. In order to ...

In March, New York City confirmed that a second baby in 11 years had died of herpes contracted through an Orthodox Jewish circumcision ritual called metzitzah b'peh, where the rabbi or mohel cleans ...

Ritual purity and impurity dominate this week’s Torah portion of Tazria, but after the destruction of the Second Temple these religious institutions have been discontinued in Jewish life. Nor do many ...

DELRAY BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A Florida woman’s yearslong battle with her child’s father over the boy’s circumcision ended Friday after she agreed to the procedure in exchange for her release from jail.

DELRAY BEACH, Fla. – A Florida woman's years long battle with her child's father over the boy's circumcision ended Friday after she agreed to the procedure in exchange for her release from jail. In a ...