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

After much drama, plenty of ups and downs, many weeks of waiting, and a good number of flights, the family of Rabbi and Mrs. Itzik Kupchik, the Shluchim to Bolivia, finally were able to have a Bris for their son. On Friday morning he was named Chaim Avrohom Zev, at the Bris which took place in Tzfas • Photos

Due to restrictions because of coronavirus, the Bris of the son of the Shliach to Cyprus, Rabbi Yair Beitsch, took place in the lounge of the Ben Gurion International Airport with a Mohel from Eretz Yisroel. The interior minister of Israel, Aryeh Deri, was thanked for his efforts in arranging this Bris • Photos

The Bris Milah of the son of R’ Pinchas Menachem Pashwazman, HY”D, who was killed by a Hamas rocket attack in May, took place on Tuesday morning. This is the second son born to R’ Pinchas Menachem Pashwazman, HY”D. His older son Yehuda is a year and a half old • Full Story

Just a few days after Shiva ended, following the tragic passing of the Shliach Rabbi Tzemach Yehoshua Cunin, OB”m, a newborn baby was named after him at an emotional Bris in Crown Heights.

Last week, the community of Cozumel, Mexico and many Shluchim from across Mexico, came together for the Bris celebration of the son of the Shluchim to Cozumel, Rabbi and Mrs. Dudi Caplan • Photos

Double Simcha: This Sunday, the Bris of the son of Dovber & Mushky (nee Liberow) Bryski was held together with the Bris of the son of Hershel & Sara Moss, both from Chabad of Flatbush. Friends, family and many community members joined together for the double Simcha. Photos by Alex Gorokhov • Photos

A non-Jew may not be a mohel; only someone who is obligated to perform the mitzvah of bris milah may perform it on others. If there is no Jew available to perform the bris milah, then the bris must be postponed – even beyond the eighth day – until a Jewish mohel can be found. By Horav Yosef Yeshaya Braun • Full Story

Venezuela’s former Chief Rabbi, Rabbi Pynchas Brener, interviewed the Miami Mohel, Rabbi Yossi Srugo. They spoke all about the Bris, its background and the different experiences over the thousands of Bris’im he has performed • Watch

In a series of ‘Stump The Rabbi’ questions, Rabbi Shlomo Goldfarb answers many interesting questions. In this clip he responds to “What is the role of the Kvater at a Bris?” • Watch

A bill that would have banned bris milah and other forms of religious circumcision in Iceland will not be voted on by its parliament following a negative recommendation by a key committee as its legislative term comes to an end • Full Story

The leading Republican and Democrat in the House on foreign policy joined to urge Iceland to stand down from a proposed bill to ban circumcision. “While Jewish and Muslim populations in Iceland may be small, your country’s ban could be exploited by those who stoke xenophobia and anti-Semitism in countries with more diverse populations” • Full Story

Earlier today, Tuesday morning, Rabbi and Mrs. Shmuel Teichman held a Bris for their baby boy, and honored Rabbi Shalom Mordechai Rubashkin with being Sandek. This is the first time R’ Shalom Mordecahi was Sandek since his miraculous release less than two weeks ago. Photos by Shmuel Amit • Photos

Earlier today, Wednesday, the Moro D’Asro, Horav Yosef Yeshaya Braun together with his wife Rebbetzin Braun (nee Lipsker) and the entire family had the Bris Milah of their son in their home. May they merit to have much Yiddishe, Chasidishe Nachas, and may they raise him to Torah, Chuppah and Ma’asim Tovim • Photos

One Minute Halacha: Mara D’asra and member of the Crown Heights Beis Din, Rabbi Yosef Yeshaya Braun, discusses what does Halacha say in regards to a doctor or gentile performing a Bris • Watch

The same day the city’s health commissioner confirmed that two mohels have been banned from practicing the risky circumcision ritual metzitzah b’peh, the health department quietly adopted a more stringent policy against mohels linked to newborns who develop herpes simplex virus-1 • Full Article

New York City has again begun attacking the age-old practice of metzitzah b’peh. First, the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene issued a Health Alert touting a new case of Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 after a bris with mbp, then the administration issued a series of statements to the media. Written by Rabbi Levi Heber • Full Article

As previously posted, the Kollel Torah organization of Ukraine held a seminar in Odessa. During the few days that they spent together three Yidden decided to enter the Bris of Avraham Avinu • Photos

Rabbi Pesach Sperlin, Chabad Shliach in Montreal, is a certified Mohel who has not performed a Bris in years. Yet recently, after an incredible dream with Rabbi Eliezer Wenger OBM, he decided to be the Mohel of a child who finally had his Bris performed at 10 weeks old • Read More

When I finished speaking, the Satmar representative said he really didn’t understand how, on this issue, there was such a rare achdus between us. ’Now I understand it. It’s because this mitzva pertains to everyone equally and there is no difference between Satmar and Lubavitch and Reform. All are Jews’ • Full Article

R’ Heber, who felt the opposition was growing, personally went to the Board of Health to attend one of the meetings on the subject. He proudly told them that he represents the Jewish people, the rabbis of Orthodox Judaism, “and they are all looking to us. This is not just a private matter in New York, but a mitzva that pertains to all Jews” • Full Article

In recent years, certain entities in the US began raising a hue and cry against bris mila. They put forth various reasons, such as “you may not inflict a wound on an infant without his consent.”  Then they started attacking bris for health reasons • Full Article

If you’ve paid some attention to the news lately, you’ve heard about the legal battle for the halachic observance of bris mila, one of the most fundamental mitzvos in the Torah. Even those who heard something about the matter are not quite informed about one of the most critical battles for the preservation of Judaism • Full Article