circumcision
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He insists the row was not serious enough to dent his "amazing relationship" with Belgium -- throwing in a mildly off-colour joke about circumcision to drive home the point.
From Barron's ● Apr. 21, 2026
Earlier this month, the U.S. ambassador to Belgium, Bill White, accused the government of antisemitism for investigating mohels, specialists in ritual Jewish circumcision, who potentially lacked medical training required by the state.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026
To summarize, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s top federal healthcare official, conjured up a connection between circumcision and autism via a relationship between circumcision and Tylenol that is unsupported by the research he cited.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2025
"A more recent review of studies in this area finds no association between circumcision and any adverse psychological effects," he added.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2025
Now, as the time of my circumcision approached, I was away at school.
From "Facing the Lion" by Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton and Herman Viola
He also said that Belgium’s health minister, whom he called “very rude”, should change the law to allow mohels to perform circumcisions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 17, 2026
Assistant coroner Anton van Dellen wrote a prevention of future deaths report in which he called for action over the lack of safety and regulatory measures surrounding non-therapeutic male circumcisions.
From BBC ● Jan. 2, 2026
The reason, its authors wrote, was that “we had no data available on analgesics or possible local anesthetics used during ritual circumcisions in our cohort, so we were unable to address the paracetamol hypothesis directly.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2025
King Edmonds said she is not Jewish, but decided to use a mohel, a person who performs circumcisions in the Jewish faith, to perform the procedure in her home.
From Fox News ● Jan. 7, 2020
The next morning my brothers, who had healed from their circumcisions, were happy that I was going to school with them.
From "Tasting the Sky" by Ibtisam Barakat
