Since the brit milah fell on Friday, I would be required to stay through Shabbat. Although that posed challenges for my family life and the work I do in Israel, the duration of the stay would ...

FALLS CHURCH, Va. (JTA) — It comes, Sara Imershein says, when the folks are noshing after the deed is done — once she has performed a brit milah, a ritual circumcision. “Someone will say ...

EFRAT, West Bank — 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 ...

Since the brit milah (ritual circumcision) fell on Friday, I would be required to stay through Shabbat. Although that posed its challenges both for my family-life and the work I do in Israel ...

Dr. Gerson is a mohelet certified by the Brit Milah program of the Reform movement and is a member of the National Organization of American Mohalim/ot. As a mom and a surgeon she is extremely ...

Different religions will have slightly different names and traditions for these ceremonies based on their beliefs and practices.

Kfir Ariel announced his new name after undergoing a brit milah, a religious circumcision, in Netanya on Thursday - the same day that Hamas returned three hostage bodies to Israel. The remains ...

The practice is known as brit milah (Covenant of Circumcision) and it is performed on the eighth day after the birth of a baby boy, as instructed in the book of Leviticus. It is regarded as a sign ...

Since the brit milah fell on Friday, I would be required to stay through Shabbat. Although that posed challenges for my family life and the work I do in Israel, the duration of the stay would ...