New York City’s health commissioner criticized a compromise on a controversial circumcision ritual. Dr. Thomas Frieden recently wrote to the state’s health commissioner, Dr. Antonia Novello, protesting the compromise reached over metzitzah b’peh, the blog Canonist.com reported.
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