What survives here is not merely a mohel’s register, but an extraordinary ethnographic document of Jewish life in ...

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 ...

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 ...

As I was anticipating the recent birth of my newborn son, news broke that anti-circumcision activists (or “intactivists” as they refer to themselves) had begun circulating a petition to introduce 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 ...

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A Johannesburg mohel has been banned from practicing for life after a baby’s penis was partially amputated during a circumcision he performed. In addition to the life ban, all mohels in the country ...

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 ...

Last week, the Brooklyn district attorney confirmed that prosecutors are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a two-week old infant who died last fall in Brooklyn after he ...

The remains of missing Hollywood actor Charles Levin — who portrayed the nervous mohel in a 1993 episode of TV’s “Seinfeld” — were believed to have been found in a remote part of Oregon. The ...