When tragic circumcision cases occur, the Jewish community is caught in the crossfire, even though they bear little ...

Members of the small but revitalized Jewish community of Warsaw recently had an opportunity to attend the first brit milah to be performed in Poland in over 30 years. And it wasn’t just one brit. It ...

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 ...

The Jerusalem Post recently published an article about a “barber-led” circumcision gone wrong. It’s a horrifying tale of how an untrained individual in India amputated a toddler’s genitalia, only to ...

For the past year, I’ve worried about what I would do if air-raid sirens sounded while I was performing a brit milah, a ritual circumcision. Would I halt the proceedings and send everyone to the bomb ...

In one of two articles giving contrasting views on circumcision, Jonathan Arkush argues that it is carried out safely within the UK's Jewish community, under the oversight of a regulator Photo: ...

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 ...