More Mohel News

After a hiatus, we once again wade into the very uncomfortable waters of metzitah b’feh, the controversial circumcision ritual in which the practitioner, or mohel, sucks the blood from the circumcision to clean the wound. The practice has resulted in the death of at least one child from herpes.

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Events for June 2, 2006

Laura Bush will speak at the United Nations General Assembly meeting on HIV/AIDS.

Health Commissioner Antonia Novello gives the Bronx Community College commencement speech.

Marty Markowitz kicks off National Caribbean-American Heritage Month at Brooklyn Borough Hall.

David Paterson gives the Borough of Manhattan Community College commencement speech at Madison Square Garden.

Jesse Hamilton will Read More

Getting Used to Spencer

Even as the tally of Antonia Novello’s grassroots supporters seems to have risen to at least one person, the State GOP seems is resigning itself to the candidacy of John Spencer. The conservative Yonkers Mayor — dissed first for Jeanine Pirro and then, it seemed for a moment, for Ed Cox — is Read More

Journalist Death Gets Mount Sinai Scathing Rebuke

On Jan. 13, Mike Hurewitz-a longtime reporter for the New York Post who spent the last eight

years at The Times Union of Albany -died

at Mount Sinai Hospital following surgery to donate part of his liver to

his ailing brother.

Two months later, on March 12, the New York State Department of

Health Read More