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Jewish Circumcision Resource Center - A group who questions the practice of ritual circumcision in Judaism. Specific citations of Judaic belief are given.
Circumcision Net - Provides insights and detailed information about Ritual Circumcision.
Circumcision - A Source of Jewish Pain - An article which appeared in the Jewish Spectator. Includes information about the Jewish law on the subject, as well as personal experiences, and alternative options.
Is it Anti-Semitic to Question Circumcision? - Article includes links to alternative Bris information, Jewish Support Groups, and Jewish Issues and Responses.
Bris Ceremony - Fred Kogen, Mohel - Information on ritual circumcision.

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Brit milah - Brit milah (Hebrew: בְרִית מִילָה [bə'rīt mī'lā] literally: "covenant [of] circumcision"), also berit milah (Sephardi), bris milah (Ashkenazi pronunciation) or bris (Yiddish) is a religious ceremony within Judaism to welcome infant Jewish boys into a covenant between God and the Children of Israel through ritual circumcision performed by a mohel ("circumciser"), on the eighth day after birth unless health reasons force a delay, in the presence of family and friends, followed by a celebratory meal (seudat mitzvah). The ritual had virtually been unchallenged within the religion until the nineteenth century advent of ...
Mohel - A mohel (מוהל in Hebrew, mo'el in Ashkenazic pronunciation, mohel in Sephardic pronunciation which is the pronunciation used in modern Israel) is a Jewish ritual circumciser who performs a brit milah ritual circumcision on the penis of a male who is to enter the Jewish covenant.
Seudat mitzvah - A seudat mitzvah ("commanded meal"), in Judaism, is an obligatory festive meal, usually referring to the celebratory meal following the fulfillment of a mitzvah (commandment), such as a bar mitzvah, a wedding, a brit milah (ritual circumcision), or a siyum (completing a tractate of Talmud or Mishnah). Seudot fixed in the calendar (i.
Zeved habat - Zeved habat (Sephardic) or Simchat bat (Ashkenazi) are terms for the ritual for naming infant Jewish girls. These rituals are parallel to the brit milah ceremony for Jewish boys, albeit without the circumcision.