Ryan is blissfully unaware that this is the morning of his bris -- the 3,000-year-old circumcision ritual that is a Jewish male's first rite of passage, followed by his bar mitzvah at puberty and ...

That he is seeing more Jewish boys having a ritual circumcision — called a bris or brit, Hebrew for “covenant” — is meaningful to Rappaport, a second-generation mohel who has performed ...

Jason unpacks his recent article in Brisbane’s Courier Mail, “The Bookends of Hatred are Closing in on Jews”. It details how Queensland Jews as with the rest of the Australian Jewish community post ...

Against all odds, the spark of Judaism continues to burn brightly in the Amazon as two members of the Brazilian city of Porto Velho underwent a bris milah performed by a renowned Argentian mohel ...

Rabbi Benny Zippel, Shliach in Salt Lake City, Utah, tells an amazing story of not giving up on making sure a Jewish boy underwent a bris milah on Gimmel Tammuz, 1994.

The Time: 9 a.m., Wednesday, January 8 The Place: Our Big Kitchen Los Angeles, 8657 West Pico Boulevard The Occasion: Bris of baby boy Muchnik, son of Rabbi Eli and Bassie Muchnik, founders of ...

The Brit Milah was a beautiful event and was the first step in the baby’s journey to becoming Jewish. At the conclusion of the bris, I explained the parents’ options for the next step in the ...

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 send everyone to the ...

I’ve studied Yiddish and Hebrew, visited Israel twice, and have a happy partnership with a Jewish woman. My son had a bris, I daven weekly at Chabad, and I do enjoy a wee nip o’ Slivovitz.

Find the Right Jewish Psychologist in Brisbane - Uri Bookman; Elan Zavelsky, ACA-L3; Aimee Tracton, Assoc MAPS; Gary Kenneth Wohlman, PhD; Dr Nicolas Kessous, PsychD ...