Avi Mogilevsky, who had sat in an Uber following the bris of a close friend’s son in Los Angeles, ended striking up a conversation with the driver. After speaking with him for a few minutes, the driver informed Avi that he had recently found out he is Jewish. He explained that he, now in his mid thirties, grew up in Ukraine in a completely assimilated family. His mother was brought up in a state orphanage in the Soviet Union • Full Story, Photos, Video
A news reporter for the Frum website Hamodia interviewed a local Shliach in Hong Kong, Rabbi Yisroel Lieberman about his local situation and the difficulties in making Bris Milos there • Full Story
The Shliach and Chief Rabbi of Russia, Rabbi Berel Lazar celebrated the 7700th Bris of a member of their community with a festive Seudas Mitzvah and a picture with the man having the Bris.
The Danish parliament is scheduled to vote on a bill banning bris milah in its next session, a bill filed last month by Simon Emil Ammitzboll-Bille, a former interior minister and leader of the left-wing Forward party, JTA reported • Full Story
For the first time in 35 years, a Bris Milah was held in the city of Cluj-Napoca, otherwise known as Klausenberg Romania. The Bris was held in the Chabad House that is run by Rabbi DovBer Urgand. The Mohel was flown in specially from France for the occasion • Full Story
Meet Menachem Mendel, Yosef Yitzchok and Sholom Dovber, three courageous young men from Rostov who today underwent a Bris Milah in Rostov, after 4 months of anticipation and uncertainty • Full Story
Baby boy to: Shmuel and Esther Neft (nee Tyshenko) – Toronto.
Baby boy to: Menachem and Esty Sheinberger – Crown Heights
Baby girl to: Meir and Chanie Levinger (nee Richler) – Yerushalayim, Israel
Baby girl to: Chagai and Dassie Meffi (nee Richler) – South Beach, FL
