Some Religious Leaders See a Threat as Europe Grows More Secular (ritual circumcisions)

New York Times ^ | Sept. 19, 2012 | By JACK EWING

[Brad from Tennessee]

HOF, Germany — This sleepy town not far from the Czech border, in a hilly corner of Catholic Bavaria, is an unlikely place to find an active synagogue, and an even unlikelier focal point for a controversy that some see as a threat to religious tolerance in Europe and even the place of Jews in Germany.

Rabbi David Goldberg, a jovial 64-year-old Israeli who serves a community of about 400 Jews in Hof, has become an international cause célèbre after four German citizens filed criminal complaints against him with the local prosecutor. His alleged crime, which made headlines in Israel and elsewhere, was performing ritual circumcisions. . .

[Brad from Tennessee]

Politics make strange bedfellows. In this issue Jews and Muslims suffer the same discrimination.

[rmlew]

Actually, since Muslims circumcise at 13, they are not really affected. Only Jews are.

[Slings and Arrows]

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