milah

Brit milah means the covenant of circumcision, so the word milah in Hebrew serves as an adjective modifying the word brit.

Queerty 2009

Playing on the Yesha newspaper campaign's emphasis on the word "milah," which literally means word but also can indicate a promise, as in word of honor, Bennet alluded to additional connotations, that of clout and authority.

Bradley Burston: As Netanyahu Faces Obama, Anxious Settlers Sharply Change Tune 2010

Playing on the Yesha newspaper campaign's emphasis on the word "milah," which literally means word but also can indicate a promise, as in word of honor, Bennet alluded to additional connotations, that of clout and authority.

Bradley Burston: As Netanyahu Faces Obama, Anxious Settlers Sharply Change Tune 2010

It is mandatory in Judaism, and in Jewish families the circumcision – known as the brith milah – is usually conducted by a mohel.

Circumcising children 2011

There is a particularly nice custom surrounding the brit milah (the ritual circumcision) — the ladies attending are supposed to get the mother stark raving drunk, so she can forget the horrors being perpetrated on her little son.

The First Cut | Her Bad Mother 2009

Without compromising either our children's identity or the survival of our people, we can invite all of our Jewish children, our baby girls and our baby boys, into a brit b'lee milah, a covenant without circumcision, and school them in the wisdom, love, and beauty of the Jewish tradition.

Miriam Pollack: Circumcision: Identity, Gender And Power Miriam Pollack 2011

Neither in biblical texts nor in the Talmud has brit milah been commanded for hygienic reasons.

Miriam Pollack: Circumcision: Identity, Gender And Power Miriam Pollack 2011

Sure there are fringe groups of Jews that have always been against brit milah, but 99% of Jews, religious and secular, follow this ancient ritual without question.

Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater: The Torah, The Constitution, And The 4th Of July Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater 2011

Neither in biblical texts nor in the Talmud has brit milah been commanded for hygienic reasons.

Miriam Pollack: Circumcision: Identity, Gender And Power Miriam Pollack 2011

Without compromising either our children's identity or the survival of our people, we can invite all of our Jewish children, our baby girls and our baby boys, into a brit b'lee milah, a covenant without circumcision, and school them in the wisdom, love, and beauty of the Jewish tradition.

Miriam Pollack: Circumcision: Identity, Gender And Power Miriam Pollack 2011