Mention circumcision in a crowd — even a virtual crowd — of liberal Jews (or liberal anything, I guess) and it never fails to spark rhetorical fire. And so, when I saw a recent post on the Park Slope ...

People don’t generally erupt in cheers at the end of a brit milah. But after such a long journey, what else could we do other ...

The mitzvah of brit milah, ritual circumcision, is among the oldest continually practiced rituals in the world. For almost four thousand years, beginning with our Patriarch Abraham, almost every ...

We have seen that peru u’revu was the first mitzvah given to the first person; brit milah was the first mitzvah given to the first Jew - Avraham Avinu. Though Hashem had already given Avraham other ...

While many synagogues have responded to the coronavirus shutdown by taking their services and rituals online, there’s one Jewish tradition that simply cannot be performed that way: the brit milah.

As a mohel, I see the current panic swirling around Brit Milah from a distinct perspective. Roughly 80% of the country’s mohalim have the certification of their teacher alone. While that might sound ...

“I’m not doing this!” the mother screamed. “Tell everyone they can go home — I won’t hold my baby’s Bris while rockets are on the way.” It’s not every day a mohel has to balance such tensions, but ...

David Abramson is only a few days old, but already he has made a huge impact on Prague’s Jewish community. Last week he became the first child in at least 30 years to be circumcised at the 98-year-old ...

Recent reports of police raids targeting unlicensed ritual circumcisions in Antwerp’s Jewish community have understandably caused concern, particularly among those who view brit milah as a core ...

According to Jonathan Lieberman in his recent piece titled “The threat to the future of brit milah,” direct Metzitzah B’peh (oral suction) is the culprit. The practice is a Talmudic therapeutic ...

The baby, named Eitan Israel, is the nephew of Staff-Sergeant-Major (res.) Gilad Elmaliach, age 30, was killed in southern Lebanon on October 26. A brit milah for the nephew of a fallen soldier was ...