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- noun Plural form of
mohel .
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Examples
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My wife and I are expecting a son in January and we are looking for information for "mohels" or other professionals who perform circumcisions.
Toytown Germany - Germany feed imakaram 2008
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The Union for Reform Judaism has established a Berit Mila Program (circumcision program) for certified physicians (licensed to use anesthesia) who are also certified mohels.
Joshua Stanton: Making Male Circumcision Humane: A Jewish Moral Imperative Joshua Stanton 2011
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The Union for Reform Judaism has established a Berit Mila Program (circumcision program) for certified physicians (licensed to use anesthesia) who are also certified mohels.
Joshua Stanton: Making Male Circumcision Humane: A Jewish Moral Imperative Joshua Stanton 2011
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And Id better go, because the mohels giving me dirty looks, and believe me, I dont want to upset him before he does a circumcision.
Change of Heart Jodi Picoult 2008
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Any volunteer mohels out there ready to give Sen. Allen a bris?
September 2006 2006
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Donk-No, the coat is clearly made out of hacked Wampa foreskins…rendering His joke about mohels funny.
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And so when my wife, Jennifer, neared the end of her pregnancy, I decided to interview mohels.
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Los Angeles rabbis and mohels say that the practice is not prevalent, confined primarily to Chasidic groups. “Even within the Chasidic community the procedure is restricted to only parts of that community, †said Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein, director of Project Next Step at the Simon Wiesenthal Center. “And in the non-Chasidic community, some of the most [Orthodox] conservative thinkers have gone on record as being opposed to the procedure. â€
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One of the most popular mohels in the community said he only had one person question him recently because of the case. “I†™ ve been doing this for over 25 years, †Rabbi Yehuda Lebovics said.
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The mohel said that he had trained at a hospital in Israel where he and the other mohels-in-training would do a circumcision every 45 minutes, as many as 13 in a day.
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