Merkel: Germany’s Jews Won’t Be Punished for Circumcisions - Israel News
In a press conference held Thursday at the Amano Hotel in central Berlin, Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt, president of the Conference of European Rabbis, said his organization was ready to back Jews in challenging the May ruling by a Cologne district court, which Jewish groups see as symptomatic of a trend across Europe against some Jewish rituals. Rabbi Goldschmidt did not give details about what actions his group could take.
And as an amusing aside, I went to primary school with Rabbi Goldschmidt. We were good friends.