JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's Supreme Court has overturned a ruling by a court of rabbis that would have forced a mother to have her son circumcised under the terms her divorce.
Circumcision is not legally obligatory for Jews in Israel, but a rabbinical court presiding over the woman's divorce case had ruled she must fulfil her husband's wish to carry out the procedure in a religious rite known in Hebrew as a "brit milah".
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