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Summary: Several Jewish leaders are suing New York City to block a new rule regulating a circumcision ritual known as <em>metzitzah b'peh.</em> City health officials say the ritual, practiced by some Orthodox Jews, can spread the herpes virus to infants. But critics say the law infringes on their freedom of religion.