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Dozens of European Jewish leaders, joined by Israeli and American diplomats, decried Antwerp prosecutors who plan to charge ...

If Jews are being harassed in the street, synagogues are being attacked, and Israel is regularly delegitimized, then why do Jews want to live there?

The European Jewish Association (EJA) has launched an urgent and coordinated campaign to defend Brit Milah, the Jewish religious circumcision of infant boys, in response to deeply concerning police ...

Israel’s chief rabbinate has weighed in on the practice of a controversial circumcision rite in Germany, saying that metzitzah b’peh is preferred. The practice, in which blood is sucked orally from ...

Belgium’s prime minister has insisted his country is not anti-Semitic after the US and Israel criticised an investigation into illegal circumcisions in Antwerp. Prosecutors reco ...

The US and Israel have redoubled their attack on Belgium over its circumcision laws, as meanwhile the EU examines legal ways to punish West Bank settlers. The US ambassador to Belgium and the Israeli ...

Richard Prasquier, the French Jewish leader, said that banning circumcision in Europe “would inevitably mean the end of Judaism” there. “You can seek a ban but you need to understand the consequences: ...

For more than a century, brit milah has been a persistent test of Europe’s commitment to religious liberty. In recent decades, that test has become increasingly severe as, across the continent, ...

It’s been a bad week for circumcision. Two separate but equally tragic stories occurred almost a continent apart. In Great Britain, a six-month-old boy died a week after his circumcision, and it has ...

This complaint joins three other cases currently under investigation, including the case in which the baby died following the circumcision.

Jewish leaders said that prosecuting mohels was “antisemitic in nature, reminiscent of efforts taken in Europe against Jewish practice prior to the Second World War.” ...