circumcision

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

If talking about circumcision makes you cringe, feel free to move along.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2025

Although an autopsy is still being conducted to establish the cause of her death, many people have linked it to FGM, or female circumcision, a cultural practice outlawed in the West African state.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2025

A prisoner working in the hospital who had formerly practiced as an ingcibi set up a secret circumcision school, and a number of the younger prisoners from our section were circumcised there.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

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

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 ingcibi now need to be registered before being allowed to carry out circumcisions.

From BBC ● Dec. 20, 2019

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