It seems that brit milah is under attack again.
Police in Antwerp, Belgium, raided the home of two Haredi mohels in the morning hours of May 14, confiscating their knives and demanding a list of the circumcisions done in the past year. The Jewish community there was stunned, and the European Jewish Association claimed that this crosses another red line, having struggled with issues of shechita (“ritual slaughter”) for quite some time. But this case is not a clear-cut example of antisemitism as has happened in other parts of the world.
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