BERLIN (JTA) — Berlin’s district attorney is investigating complaints about a circumcision in the German capital involving the controversial metzizah b’peh ritual. A spokesman for the office of the ...

On Sunday, September 9, 2012, the first ever pro-circumcision and Jewish (and Muslim) life rally in Germany, was held in Berlin. In May 2012 a Cologne court ruled against a Muslim circumcision and ...

Jewish religious leaders will hold an international meeting in Berlin on Tuesday to discuss how to respond to a German court ruling against performing circumcision on baby boys, which also sparked ...

Israel’s chief Ashkenazi rabbi said in Berlin that medical training for mohels, or ritual circumcisers, could resolve concerns in Germany regarding circumcision of male children. In meetings Tuesday ...

Prosecutors in Berlin dismissed a criminal complaint lodged against a rabbi for performing circumcisions. The Jerusalem Post reported on Thursday that the complaint for “causing bodily harm” against ...

The German parliament voted Wednesday to keep male circumcision legal, ending an international controversy that started when a Cologne court ruled the practice constitutes “bodily harm.” The new law, ...

Berlin became the first of Germany’s 16 states to declare circumcision legal, following a Cologne court ruling in June that non-medical circumcisions on children amounted to a criminal offense, ...

BERLINBERLIN — Infant male circumcision for religious reasons is legal in Berlin, a top state official said Wednesday, making the capital the first of Germany’s 16 states to specify that the ritual ...

(JTA) — The American Jewish Committee condemned a decision by the state of Berlin that places restrictions on circumcisions. The decision made earlier this week affirmed the legality of circumcisions ...

The American Jewish Committee condemned a decision earlier this week by the state of Berlin that places restrictions on circumcisions. The decision affirmed the legality of circumcisions but placed ...

Israeli Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger is in Berlin today to help with an ongoing debate in Germany over the risks and legality of circumcision procedures. A district court in Germany outlawed ritual ...