Rare circumcision ritual generates controversy in New York

Friday, February 3, 2006

NEW YORK -- For thousands of years, rabbis performed a simple procedure to cleanse the wound during a ritual circumcision: Like outdoorsmen treating a snake bite, they sucked blood from the cut and spit it out.

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