The de Blasio administration will do away with the policy that  required a mohel to obtain a written consent form from parents before  performing Metzitzah B'Peh, the circumcision ritual that involves the  mohel sucking blood from the wounded penis.
 The city's health department has for years linked the practice to neonatal herpes, citing four cases in 2014.
 But  the consent forms, which were put in place in 2012, offended members of  certain Orthodox Jewish sects who rejected the link and found the forms  to be an impingement on their religious freedom.
During the  campaign, Mayor Bill de Blasio promised to address the consent form and  find a new way that respected religious freedom.
In exchange for abandoning the consent forms, the coalition of rabbis  negotiating with City Hall agreed that if a baby is diagnosed with  HSV-1, the community would identify the mohel in question and ask him to  undergo testing. If the mohel tests positive for HSV-1, the city's  health department will test the DNA of the strain to see if it matches  the infant's.
If it does, the mohel will be banned from performing the ritual for life.
The deal is 
structured similarly to one in Rockland County.