The identity of a mohel who infected an infant with herpes during a ritualistic circumcision will apparently remain secret as a state judge has held that principles of open government “must yield to matters of public safety.”
Supreme Court Justice Timothy Dufficy (See Profile) in Queens rejected a bid by The Jewish Daily Forward and journalist Paul Berger to learn the name of the mohel involved in the December 2012 Metzizah B’Peh (MBP). During the ritual, in which a mohel—a person who performs the Jewish rite of circumcision—orally draws away blood from the surgical wound, an infant was infected with herpes.
