Religion Clause

In M v. F , (EWHC (Fam), June 14, 2021), a British High Court, Family Division judge refused the request by Muslim parents for an order requ...

AP reported yesterday on the third death in Italy since December of infant or toddler boys circumcised at home by Muslim families. Apparent...

The New York Times this week reported on the controversy in Iceland over a bill introduced in the country's Parliament last month that ...

In September 2015, the New York City Board of Health repealed its largely unenforced regulations that required parental consent forms be sig...

Canadian border officials last month refused entry into Canada to a Detroit-based  mohel  who was crossing into neighboring Windsor in order...

In Exeter (county Devon) in England, a family court judge has ruled that a Muslim father cannot have his 4 and 6 year old sons circumcised o...

According to yesterday's Jerusalem Post , South Africa's Jewish community is setting up its own Committee to oversee and regulate th...

As reported by the New York Times , on Wednesday the New York City Board of Health by a vote of 9-1-1 repealed its largely unenforced regula...

In Florida, a dispute between the father and mother of a now four-and-one-half year old boy has led to the filing of a federal lawsuit chall...

The New York Observer  reported yesterday that New York Mayor Bill DeBlasio's administration has reached a settlement agreement with the...

A decision by a Family Court judge in Britain earlier this month tackled directly the argument that male circumcision should be equated with...

Last week the federal government's Centers for Disease Control released for comment ( Dec. 2 Federal Register ) recommendations for heal...

In Central Rabbinical Congress of the United States & Canada v. New York City Department of Health & Mental Hygiene ,  (2d Cir., Aug...

The Forward reported this week that the New York City Health Department has prohibited two  mohels  from performing Jewish religious circum...

Israel's High Court of Justice on Sunday held 6-1 that a rabbinical court did not have jurisdiction in the context of a divorce action t...

Haaretz reports that an Israeli Magistrate's Court in the city of Ashkelon last week acquitted two individuals who had been charged wit...

As previously reported , last month Israel's Supreme Rabbinical Court upheld a lower court's $140 per day fine imposed on a woman wh...

According to the  Pittsburgh Tribune-Review , a lawsuit was filed in Philadelphia (PA) on Tuesday by parents of a now-8 month old boy whose ...

In In re Application of Berger and The Jewish Daily Forward v. New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene ,  (NY Sup Ct Queens Co...

Haaretz and   Failed Messiah report that in Israel, the Supreme Rabbinical Court on Sunday denied an appeal from an Oct. 29 decision of th...