The Jewish Telegraphic Agency: German court
ruling on circumcision riles Jewish community Germany's top Jewish leader called on the federal Parliament «to ensure religious freedom» following a Cologne court ruling that said circumcising young boys on religious grounds amounts to grievous bodily harm.
Not exact matches
The Jerusalem Post: Muslims, Jews gather in Paris for interfaith parley Moshe Kantor, the president of the European Jewish Congress, told Jewish and Muslim leaders
on Tuesday that «an attack
on one of us is an attack
on all of us,» referring to recent
rulings in Europe against
circumcision and ritual slaughter.
My critics reject the argument that the
ruling violates the religious liberty rights of Jews and Muslims; they maintain that,
on the contrary, infant
circumcision violates the rights of children to bodily integrity and religious liberty, since they can not consent to being circumcised.