| Circumcision controversy rages on after NYC warns against procedure | ||
| By Debra Nussbaum Cohen and Larry Cohler-Esses | NEW YORK, Dec. 28 (JTA) — In the face of a religious court’s failure to conclude its investigation of a mohel who transmitted herpes to three babies, New York City’s health commissioner has issued an unprecedented public warning Tuesday that a controversial circumcision procedure is endangering the lives of Jewish infants. “There exists no reasonable doubt that metzitzah b’peh can and has caused neonatal herpes infection,” Dr. Thomas Frieden wrote earlier this month in “An Open Letter to the Jewish Community” about a procedure routinely practiced by mohels in some sectors of the Orthodox community. “The Health Department recommends that infants being circumcised not undergo metzitzah b’peh.” | |
Thursday, December 29, 2005
Circumcision controversy
