When Rachamim “Rocky” Cohen was planning his oldest son’s brit milah, the ancient Jewish ritual of circumcision, the mohel, or ritual circumciser, asked if he wanted should use direct oral suction, known as metzitzah b’peh. Cohen, a Lubavitch Chasid who lives with his wife, two sons and a daughter in Miami, told him to do whatever he wished. The mohel didn’t use the controversial technique during that...
N.Y.-area Haredim decry attempts to regulate circumcision
N.Y. Haredim are up in arms about an upcoming N.Y.C. Health Department vote that would regulate direct oral suction during circumcision.
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