Circumcision of infant boys used to be pretty much routine in America, whether a child was Jewish or not. Then, since the American Medical Association declared the procedure elective, some parents are ...

Medically reviewed by Matthew Wosnitzer, MD Key Takeaways Circumcision can make cleaning the penis easier and reduce certain ...

Oh boy. The question of whether to circumcise our sons has divided U.S. parents nearly in half, with one side insisting it makes smart medical sense and the other condemning the practice as barbaric.

When my son Henry was born, and the hospital urologist came to visit us at his bedside in the NICU, it took all my self-restraint not to laugh in the doctor’s face when he broached the topic of ...

Is it better to circumcise or not to circumcise? Infant circumcision historically has been a hotly debated topic. There are people who take a strong stance either for or against the procedure for a ...

I am a 38-year-old father of two little boys living in Portland, Oregon, and I like my circumcised penis. However, when it came time to decide the fate of my sons’ own genitalia, my wife and I bucked ...

On March 17 this year, we found out we are having a little boy. This was great news. I wanted a boy first. In fact, I'd be thrilled with a family full of boys. Can't say why, exactly, I just think it ...

A friend who works for the federal government wrote recently to say that because of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on DOMA (Defense of Marriage Act), she was able to add her wife to the family’s ...

AMSTERDAM (JTA) — They warn you that parenting means doing a bunch of stuff you never imagined yourself doing. I had always assumed this applied to saying to children things like, “You watch your tone ...

History has seen some unusual converts to Judaism, from movie star Elizabeth Taylor to soul singer Jackie Wilson, but few could be as funny – or as bloody-minded – as Yisrael Campbell. The ...