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EFRAT, West Bank — 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 ...

“I’m not doing this!” the mother screamed. “Tell everyone they can go home — I won’t hold my baby’s Bris while rockets are on the way.” It’s not every day a mohel has to balance such tensions, but ...

I often feel like the “A-team” of rabbis: “If you have a problem and you can find me, maybe I can help.” I don’t operate out of a synagogue; I’m a spiritual freelancer in Israel — officiating weddings ...