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 ...

Millions of Americans laughed at the depiction of the twitchy, ill-tempered mohel in the Seinfeld episode “The Bris,” which first aired 30 years this Saturday. Actor Jason Alexander, who played George ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

As a 48-year-old father of seven, Rabbi Shalom Denbo isn’t your typical Orthodox rabbi. He zips through Southern California on a motorcycle with a medical bag in tow, performing brises on Jewish ...

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 ...

Thanks to their Jewish heritage, Abbi and Ilana began their Birthright-like trip in the first part of the Season 3 finale of Broad City. In the second part of the finale, "Jews on a Plane," Ilana ...

When I congratulated “Julie” at her son’s bris, I couldn’t believe that she looked better than I did at my wedding. Like most of the other women attending the ritual circumcision, we were amazed that ...