“What we’re doing, so well-intended, isn’t working, so we’ve got to find some new approach,”

Hospitals would be asked, but not required, to distribute English and Yiddish versions of the brochure. And although the city has proposed that circumcisers, known as mohels, be tested for herpes if an infant is infected, those tests would not be mandated by law

At 8 days of life, the twins were circumcised by mohel A, who performed direct orogenital suction. At 16 days of life, both twins were evaluated for fever and lesions on their abdomen, buttocks, and perineum, including the genitals. HSV-1 was isolated from skin lesions of both twins. Twin A, who had been circumcised first, died from disseminated HSV-1 infection.

Circumcision is a surgical procedure that should be performed under sterile conditions.

„Die Gesundheit geht vor“, sagt Teichtal und begrüßt den Mohel vorne am Tisch.

Der Kleine brüllt nun heftig. Fleischmann betupft die Wunde mit Desinfektionsmittel

Mayor Bill de Blasio has installed numerous allies on the New York City Board of Health as his administration prepares to present a controversial plan that would ease the rules on a circumcision ritual linked to herpes infections in infants.

Three of the new board members were contributors to Mr. de Blasio’s 2013 mayoral campaign; among those donors, one is married to an unpaid special adviser to the mayor. The fourth is the president of the city’s Health and Hospitals Corporation, a position he was placed in by Mr. de Blasio.

Instead, the mayor’s plan would create an alternative system that would test a circumciser, or mohel, for herpes, although only after a baby is found to be infected.

Mr. de Blasio’s press secretary, Karen Hinton, said in a statement on Tuesday. Ms. Hinton added that the mayor had an “obligation to ensure that the Board of Health is fully staffed with highly qualified health experts.”

Ms. Brier, the chief executive of Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, has her own ties to Mr. de Blasio. About a decade ago, she created a job at the medical center for his wife, Chirlane McCray.

DOS violates a baby’s right to be protected from an obvious impending harm.

Circumcision is surgery ...

Sherman draws a clear distinction between his work and the medical realm: “I do not perform medical procedures,” he explains. “All brisses and circumcisions that I perform are religious in nature. If it is a bris,” he said, using the Yiddish shorthand for Brit Milah, “it is a religious ceremony. If it is for a non-Jewish family, there may be scriptural readings, psalms, blessings, and prayers that are recited.”