“What are these for?” the security guard at the Dubai airport asked as three others inspected my bris kit — the bag of supplies I carry when I perform circumcisions on Jewish baby boys. Whenever I ...

The probe follows a series of articles in which a daily interviewed non-Jewish physicians who said that it was unethical not to drug newborns. (JTA) — Health Ministry officials in Sweden have launched ...

As a 48-year-old father of seven, Rabbi Shalom Denbo isn’t your typical Orthodox rabbi. He zips through Southern California on a motorcycle with a medical bag in tow, performing brises on Jewish ...

Rabbi Moshe Sheinfeld is a Rav who serves in Kaunas (formerly Kovno), Lithuania, a city that has a glorious Jewish past which was sadly wiped out during the Holocaust. Today there are very few local ...

So You Want to Make a Bris by Dr. Henry Michael Lerner, Outskirts Press, November 2020. So You Want to Make a Bris was written because, as a practicing obstetrician and mohel, I have seen so many ...

When Dr. Debra Weiss-Ishai watched her son’s brit milah two years ago, she thought to herself, I could do this better. Not just technically, although as a pediatrician she had done numerous medical ...

As I looked around the plane and noticed I was one of the only white people on board, the reality of traveling to Kenya ...

WALNUT CREEK, Calif. – Jewish law does not prohibit a woman from serving as mohel, although it seems to be discouraged. Rabbi Daniel Korobkin of Kehillat Yavneh in Los Angeles points to Yoreh De’ah ...

WALNUT CREEK, Calif. – When Dr. Debra Weiss-Ishai watched her son’s brit milah two years ago, she thought to herself, "I could do this better." Not just technically, although as a pediatrician she had ...

Joel Shoulson, an eighth-generation mohel and Philadelphia resident, died on June 10. He was 87. Few children get the opportunity to accompany their parents on business trips, but for Shoulson it was ...