Israeli woman appeals rabbinical ruling
she must circumcise son.
An Israeli woman appealed to the Supreme Court on Wednesday against a rabbinical ruling that ordered her to circumcise her one-year-old son, the Justice Ministry said, in the first case of its kind.
There is no law in Israel making circumcision obligatory for Jews, but a rabbinical court that was presiding over the woman's divorce case ruled last month that she must fulfill her husband's wish in the matter.
It fined her 500 shekels ($142) a day until she did so.
Jewish law, the rabbis said, puts the onus on the father to see his son is circumcised but the mother says circumcision is tantamount to physical abuse.
"I don't believe in religious coercion."
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