Sentences with word «mohel»

Under the February 2015 agreement on the controversial religious practice, where mohels suck blood from an incision during a circumcision, the city eliminated a parental consent form mandated by former Mayor Bloomberg.

«Nothing excites Monster Mohel more,» says the comicbook, «than cutting into the penile flesh of an eight - day - old infant boy.

A small number of infants have contracted herpes through such contact with herpes - infected mohels, provoking public health officials to seek to limit or ban the practice.

However, the bans will not be public and so parents will have to ask mohels if they are banned.

Come give me my proper punishment if you have the manhood... that hasn't been chopped off and sucked on by a filthy mohel.

More modern day mohels use a glass tube placed over the infant's penis for suction of the blood when performing metzitzah.

Jewish people believe that «it is a profoundly significant life cycle event connecting the child to the ancient covenant between God and Abraham and the Torah and its commandments,» according to Philip Sherman, a veteran mohel and associate cantor at Congregation Shearith Israel in New York City.

Now, the city Health Commissioner will send out a health alert whenever a case of neonatal herpes is believed to be connected to metzitzah b» peh and will ban mohels believed to be spreading herpes.

Using imagery that the Anti-Defamation League has appropriately referred to as «grotesque» and «anti-Semitic,» the comic featured a disturbingly bloodthirsty and violent villain named «Monster Mohel.»

A small number of infants have contracted herpes through such contact with herpes - infected mohels, provoking public health officials to seek to limit or ban the practice and providing a difficult political issue for Mayors Bloomberg and de Blasio.

@RightTurnClyde Being a Mohel is a great job!

(The Mohel is a person of the Jewish faith who is ordained to do circumcision under the guidelines of the Jewish religion.)

Jews regularly practice circumcision as part of their religion, but mostly ultra-Orthodox Jews practice metzitzah b «peh, during which the mohel, or person performing the procedure, orally sucks the blood from the infant's newly circumcised penis.

The regulation, passed in September by the city's Department of Health, requires all rabbis, called «mohels» in the context of the ritual, to get parental consent on a form stating that the procedure can lead to health risks.

She doesn't believe in routine circumcision, but has seen many circumcised boys in her years as a midwife, and even acted as a mohel for a while.

Some Orthodox Jewish families choose to have their infant undergo a ritual called «metzitzah b» peh» - the circumcision practice in which a Jewish person trained in circumcision, called a mohel, sucks the blood from a freshly snipped foreskin.

In an effort to prevent this from happening, two years ago New York passed a law requiring parents to sign a waiver before the ritual can be performed, but some mohels and Orthodox Jewish families object to the form as a violation of their religious freedoms and simply don't sign it.

I circumcised my son for a combination of reasons (religious, cultural, etc.) But I paid for a mohel and pediatrician to do it.

During «Metzitzah», the mohel takes the now badly bleeding penis into his mouth and sucks the blood from the wounded pant.

As one would expect, many of those experienced in the procedure were Jewish physicians and mohels.

It caused a lot of controversy in 2005 and early 2006, particularly since the city's Health Department, while not banning the procedure, pushed a public health campaign against the rite, in which the mohel sucks the blood from the circumcision wound to clean it.

The ritual, in which a mohel, an adult male, draws blood from an infant's circumcision wound with his mouth, has bedeviled Mayors Bloomberg and de Blasio.

As Dan Goldberg reports for Politico, the de Blasio administration says that the Orthodox Jewish community refused to identify the mohels who had performed the circumcisions.

In a win for ultra-orthodox Jewish sects, a federal appeals court ruled a NYC regulation, which requires parental consent before a mohel is allowed to suck blood from an infant's circumcised penis, must pass a stricter constitutional test than was applied by the lower court.

As part of the deal to end the consent forms, the de Blasio administration said in 2015 that a mohel would voluntarily be tested for herpes if a baby contracted the virus, and if the mohel's strain matched the baby's, the mohel would be banned from performing circumcision for life.

The city will now undertake a public information campaign to encourage families to ask their mohels about their health statuses, de Blasio said.

But de Blasio said the mohels in question could still be indirectly involved in the ritual in which blood is sucked from an infant's circumcised penis.

After years of negotiating with ultra-orthodox rabbis and a moderately successful education campaign, the Bloomberg administration, citing health concerns, required parents to sign a consent form before the mohel could perform the ritual.

Questions began with a sharply posed question on metzitzah b» peh, a circumcision ritual practiced by some ultra-orthodox groups in which a mohel, an adult male, draws blood from an infant's circumcision wound with his mouth.

UPDATEx3: Another reader sent me an email noting that the caption says that the subject of metzizah b «peh, an ultra-Orthodox circumcision practice in which the mohel sucks blood from the wound during the bris of a baby boy, was raised.

I first reported, back at the Daily News, on the practice, which city health officials were looking at possibly barring after an infant boy died of herpes that he was believed to have contracted from the mohel who performed the rite.

At a June 4 Democratic forum before an Orthodox Jewish audience, candidates were asked to comment on the city's regulation of a form of circumcision that has the mohel suck the blood from the newly circumcised penis.