It was the holiday season about ten years ago when I got the call: it’s a boy.  My older sister was the first of my siblings to have a child

The first Apple event I’ve ever watched was last week and it was an eye-opening experience.  Maybe I’m missing something because I’m not the

At the Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade this past year, someone on sidelines stood out more than the marchers.  And that’s no small feat at an

“The children are still in foster care,” the grandmother told me.  “The parents haven’t gotten their drug habits under control.”  

My name is Hayim Leiter and I am an unlicensed mohel. Now I know what you’re thinking, ‘Shouldn’t he be arrested or something?’

Being a mohel is its own animal.  It’s different from your run-of-the-mill business.  A standard business model focuses on getting the word

It was almost midnight a few weeks ago when I received a text from a fellow mohel asking, “What is ‘inter-milah’?  I need to explain to the

“We want it L’Mitzvah”, the father of the baby said. I’m not sure if it was my translation of Hebrew into in English or his translation...

Nothing portrays our dilemma of circumcising children of non Jewish mothers in our generation better than the grandchildren of both

“You don’t need to check your bag. It’ll fit in the overhead compartment,” the woman checking me in said. “I can’t.” “Why?” she asked. Since

If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times; no one looks for the cheapest brain surgeon.  And it would seem that the same would

This is an interview I did with the Boiyz Club. If you haven't heard of them, they're literally changing the face of Orthodox Judaism by

I have a confession. I officiated an inter-milah. The Bris was for an amazing family though. The father was Jewish but the mother was not.  

I’ve only worn blue hospital scrubs twice in my life and they were both in the last month and a half. The first was in the neonatal

This Bris got off to a rocky start, and the truth is it didn’t get any easier quickly. When I did the preliminary check of the baby

Am I nervous? You better believe it. With every Bris I do I’m nervous. But you know what? That’s a good thing. A Mohel needs to be on edge

The most bizarre Bris I’ve ever had started as they all do, with a phone call. The voice on the other line introduced himself as Ralph

Picture the scene: Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore watch as John Lovitz belts out one of the worst renditions of “Ladies Night” in disco

“What do you do about the sucking”, the mother said to me in broken English, and it took all of my strength not to hug her with all my might