Why would two rabbis who ostensibly share the goal of reinstating the legality of ritual slaughter in Poland go at each other’s throats? The spat goes to heart of an issue that has bedeviled communities across Eastern Europe for more than two decades: control.
A European rabbinical group has created a union of mohels, or ritual circumcisers, in an effort to standardize ritual circumcision and combat attempts to ban the rite.
