Brussels-Based Center Trains Mohelim as Belgium Circumcision Debate Intensifies

Brussels-based center trains mohelim as Belgium circumcision debate intensifies

The newly established Center of Excellence for Religious Male Circumcision (CERM) comes against the backdrop of growing legal and political challenges to Jewish religious circumcision across Europe.

European Jewish groups open circumcision training programme amid legal crackdown

The new scheme teaches mohelim medical and sanitary techniques required to comply with local licensing rules

Jewish group opens circumcision training program in Brussels

The new program teaches mohels medical and sanitary techniques, amid a crackdown in Belgium on the Jewish ritual.

Launch of Europe’s first comprehensive medical certification programme for Jewish circumcision practitioners

In Judaism, circumcision, known as Brit Milah, is a religious ritual where a male infant's foreskin is removed on the eighth day after birth. ''Circumcision has been shown throughout decades of medical research to not be harmful to baby boys. In fact it has medical benefits - which is why so many people choose to circumcise […]