The rite of circumcision is the latest Jewish ritual to be upended by the coronavirus outbreak. The Conservative movement and some mohels are saying that because of the highly infectious nature of ...

When a Jewish couple gives birth to a Jewish baby boy, their extended family and friends used to know what to expect – a big bris! The couple would find a mohel, book a room at the synagogue or ...

The author holding a baby from a previous bris he performed. “The bris is going to be on Yom HaZikron,” the mother told me when we initially spoke a month ago. Some families are in touch when the baby ...

In my last post, I mentioned that LDS friends of ours who had just had a boy were planning to hold a bris for him that would be conducted by a Jewish mohel. In response, I received a few inquiries ...

Drorit and Shai Raiter are expecting their first child, a boy, at the end of May. In preparation, they signed up for the requisite birthing class at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, where ...

When Ben Sass and Aliza Jaffe Sass learned in January that they had a baby boy on the way, preparations for a bris started immediately. Along with the rest of the logistical advance work of pregnancy, ...

Rabbi Nir Dorfman holding the baby he had saved after the Bris. A Bris Milah that took place in Bat Yam recently was nothing short of miraculous, after the mother and the baby nearly died in the ...

When Naftali was born, I knew that I wanted to have him circumcised. I’m Jewish. My husband Juan, who isn’t from the tribe, was circumcised and it makes sense for a father and son to match, doesn’t it ...

So it’s a fitting theme for the first exhibit in the Museum at Eldridge Street’s new initiative, “Opening Doors to ...