With a swift swipe of his scalpel, Rabbi A. Romi Cohn circumcises the baby boy, then leans down and sucks the blood from the wound as prayers in Hebrew fill the Brooklyn synagogue. The Orthodox Jewish ...

Some Hasidic Jews practice “metzitzah b’peh,” in which the mohel — the specially trained person performing the circumcision — uses oral suction “to draw blood from the area of the circumcision wound.” ...

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New York City's Board of Health voted Thursday to require parental consent for a form of circumcision that involves oral suction, a ritual practiced by some ultra-Orthodox Jews. The board voted 9-0 to ...

Well, this will certainly add fuel to the "intactivist" movement! According to the CDC, between 2000 and 2011 a total of 11 baby Jewish boys in New York City were infected with herpes after having ...