Sydney Australia - Orthodox Rabbis Block Bar Mitzvah Over Non-Kosher Circumcision

Sydney Australia - A traumatic row over a boy’s circumcision forced a Sydney mother to move her son’s bar mitzvah from an Orthodox shul to a Progressive temple at the 11th hour, because rabbis from the Sydney Beth Din (SBD) ruled that his circumcision was not kosher.  

Rabbi Moshe Gutnick and Rabbi Yoram Ulman, two judges at the Jewish court, noticed that the circumcision, conducted by a Jewish doctor in 1993, was incomplete. “We immediately called one of the mohelim to check, and he confirmed that further circumcision needed to be done,” Rabbi Gutnick said.  
He said he told the boy’s mother, that her son could either be operated  on under local or general anaesthetic, and that “In order to become Jewish he has to be [properly] circumcised there’s nothing we can do about it. We feel terrible it’s devastating,” Rabbi Gutnick said.  

But the mother said “I didn’t want my son to have that trauma [of another circumcision],” “I spent the week in tears,” she said.
The single mother, who had an adult bat mitzvah following her Progressive conversion, said she had to inform the 100 or so guests of the change of venue “due to a technical problem” just days before the occasion.
She also said that the pain had been magnified because her son had a bris milah, conducted in the presence of Rabbi Kamins, eight days after he was born. “You don’t take your 13-year-old son four days before his bar mitzvah and give him a general [anaesthetic]. He didn’t want to do it. Just imagine if there had been an infection,” she said.

Rabbi Kamins said it is the first time he has ever heard of such a case.