Monsey Rabbi Will Stop Circumcisions For Now.

New York City announced that a Monsey rabbi linked to three infants who contracted herpes has agreed to stop performing oral suction circumcisions in New York City until a religious panel investigates the method.
The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene had been trying for months in court to stop the rabbi from using oral-suction circumcision.
An agency spokeswoman said an agreement had been reached. "The rabbi has agreed to stop performing metzizah bi peh in NYC pending an investigation being conducted by the Rabbinical Court of the Central Rabbinical Congress," the spokeswoman said in a statement.
The rabbi's lawyers, said that "the rabbi has been asked by the rabbinical court to refrain from practicing metzizah bi peh and agreed."
The New York state Health Department had rescinded its ban and joined New York City's plan for a committee of rabbis and medical personnel to review the oral-suction procedure and come up with guidelines.