they wanted to know when we’d be having a bris (the Jewish circumcision ceremony traditionally performed 8 days after a baby is born),” she wrote, according to Beyond the Bris. “When I said ...

a representative of the Brussels-based European Jewish Association. “In the past couple of years there has been a surge of legislation in Europe, mainly bans on circumcision and ritual ...

Abu Dhabi is currently constructing the first official synagogue in the emirate, slated to be completed by 2022. In a historic first, a brit, or circumcision ceremony, for a Jewish infant took ...

Pagan, Christian, and Jewish texts (and other forms of documentation) from antiquity shall be investigated for what they reveal about the form of the ritual and how it was understood both within and ...

The Rabbi and the Mohel (R) Dr. Greenspan perform the ritual. It is a moment of tremendous significance to the little community gathered there – this is the first time in at least half a century that ...