There are a few questions Max Mintz gets all the time. A retired Houston-area pediatrician who works as a mohel, or Jewish ritual circumciser, Mintz has circumcised 9,700 babies during the past 30 ...

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The Jewish Tribune, UK reports: A North London coroner this week ruled that infant death syndrome was the cause of the petiroh of a baby shortly after his bris two and a half years ago. He cleared a ...

The hospital-circumcision contingent believes that a medical facility is the only appropriate place for surgery. If something goes wrong—excessive bleeding, infections, an accident—a hospital has ...

R’ Emanuel Yechiya Meshulam, z”l, a beloved mohel and tzaddik known throughout Israel for his decades of mesirus nefesh in performing brissim purely l’shem Shamayim was tragically niftar as he ...

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It was part of Fred Goldberg's job to put a crowd at ease. His work was important, even sacred, and the occasion of his visits joyous and celebratory. But a few folks, especially young mothers, always ...

A state judge has denied a request by the Forward seeking the name of a mohel who is believed to have infected a baby with herpes during a ritual circumcision. Supreme Court Justice Timothy Dufficy ...

On a recent Wednesday afternoon, Rabbi Eliezer Lawrence is laying a sterile drape over a stone-top table in an Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, kitchen, preparing for his final bris of the day. Pickles ...

I did not want just anyone to cut my son’s penis. I wanted the best. And so when my wife, Jennifer, neared the end of her pregnancy, I decided to interview mohels. I had good reason to be nervous ...