'Oral Suction' Provides Anti-circumcision Activists With Dubious Ammunition

The link between metzitzah b'peh and fatal herpes is not as 'scientifically' obvious as one may think.

Rabbi Avi Shafran

Feb 25, 2015 10:13 AM

If an anti-circumcision activist ever needed a “poster child” for his cause, the obvious candidate would be metzitzah b'peh, the “oral suction” that, in...

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