Jerusalem Post
| 9 months ago
Berlin, Germany's capital and itself a state, is the first to declare the practice legal following Cologne court ruled in June that non-medical circumcisions on children amounted to a criminal offense, according to DPA, a German news wire. National...
Israel National News
| 9 months ago
21 Reported News Brief 9/5/2012, Elul 18, 5772 German Flash Mob' Fights Fear with Kippa More than 1,000 Germans Jews and non-Jews formed a flash mob Saturday in response to a leading rabbi advising Jews to keep a low profile and not wear the head...
SF Gate
| 9 months ago
A top state official says infant male circumcision for religious reasons is legal in Berlin, making the capital the first of Germany's 16 states to specify that the ritual followed by Jews and Muslims shouldn't be considered a crime. State Justice...
The Courier-Mail
| 9 months ago
THE city of Berlin has imposed new legal conditions on parents who have their boys circumcised, as a former head of Germany's Jewish community blasted the national debate about the practice. Following a recent court ruling saying the rite amounted to...
