Brit mila

Haaretz’s claims on brit milah: Separating fact from misconception - opinion

That this family continues to have a strong connection to our nation, history, and customs speaks to how brit milah – unchanged itself across millennia – continues to preserve the Jewish people.

NOVEMBER 11, 2025|ByHAYIM LEITER

THE WRITER, second from left, performs a circumcision in the presence of four generations, great-grandfather to newborn. Just as much as the Jewish people have continuously kept the commandment of circumcision, the practice has preserved our identity, he asserts.

Author Gary Shteyngart holds a cucumber in the short documentary "The Man Who Got Cut Wrong."

Gary Shteyngart reflects on his botched bris in a new short film

Told with humor, sensitivity, and pain, the 20-minute film — shot almost entirely in black and white — is directed by Dana Ben-Ari.

OCTOBER 1, 2025|ByJACKIE HAJDENBERG/JTA

AVIGAYIL, THE WIDOW, holds the baby at the brit.

A brit milah for two: Welcoming life, honoring the fallen - opinion

VALERY WAS more than just a comrade. He was brave. A rock in times of chaos. A man of quiet courage and deep conviction. Bobby often spoke of how Valery made him a better soldier and a better man.

MAY 31, 2025|ByJONATHAN LIEBERMAN

THE WRITER conducts the circumcision as the head of the community, standing and wearing a prayer shawl, reads from the text and names the baby. ‘What I discovered is that Kenyans love Israel,’ he says.

A mohel in Nairobi: Discovering Jewish life in the heart of Africa - opinion

A mohel’s journey to Nairobi reveals a thriving yet fragile Jewish community, deep ties to Israel, and the challenge of sustaining Jewish life in Kenya.

FEBRUARY 24, 2025|ByHAYIM LEITER

First brit milah celebrated at Polish Chabad center for Ukrainian refugees

Chabad of Poland has been doing everything to help the massive wave of Ukrainian refugees, from providing kosher meals to even conducting brit milot. But now it needs your support.

APRIL 20, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

The father of the baby, Joseph Sofron, says the prayer of the father during his son's brit milah at Chabad in Poland, and to his right, sitting with the baby on his lap, is Rabbi Stambler, the head of Poland's Chabad

Finding religious tolerance during a Croatia circumcision - opinion

I realized that he was not the only one willing to put aside his own needs for those in his community.

OCTOBER 26, 2021ByHAYIM LEITER

From Maine to Yeroham: One man’s journey to his grandson’s brit

For my father, 87, the brit was the moment he had been looking forward to after a cold Maine winter on the St. Croix River, filled with snow flurries and coronavirus worries.

JULY 15, 2021ByANAV SILVERMAN PERETZ