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Hayim Leiter is a rabbi, mohel, wedding officiant and member of a private beit din in Israel. He founded Magen HaBrit, an organization that protects the ceremony of brit milah and the children who undergo it. He lives in Efrat and can be reached on X.

While the rocket event was over, the other event needed to begin. Would we make it in time?
While it may be true that actions in Belgium and Ireland are legal overreaches directed at the Jewish community, playing the antisemitic card may be doing more harm than good.
Tragedies related to the practice of circumcision are caused by a multiplicity of factors, such as untrained practitioners, unsterile environments and the advanced age of the initiates.
Israelis have been able to get back to normal life with less tension than in the past two years of wartime news. That means more time for happy events, even as losses are kept in mind.
A protracted battle has been fought internationally about the practice of circumcision for years.
Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef seems to connect lapses in Torah learning to the deaths of five Israeli soldiers in the Gaza Strip. But how could anyone know such a thing?
In Israel, life goes on, even if it feels like the sky might fall.
If, outside Israel, the law is that a “bris” must be performed by a medical professional, then they are the only ones who can do it.
Hate-filled actors in Gaza and Australia show their true colors, and it’s causing a shift in public opinion.
Terrorists released those who were in better physical condition first so that the world could once again turn its back on the Jewish state.
I’ve never truly faced the reality of my own children’s fates.
Tearing down a flag, shouting disrespectful slogans and even the destruction of property are not the same as systematically hunting down human beings.