mohels
- plural of mohel.
Example Sentences
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Earlier this month, the U.S. ambassador to Belgium, Bill White, accused the government of antisemitism for investigating mohels, specialists in ritual Jewish circumcision, who potentially lacked medical training required by the state.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026
White, in his Newsmax interview, raised the case of an investigation in Antwerp into circumcisions by a small number of mohels, Jewish specialists who perform circumcisions.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 17, 2026
But there were no mohels left in Ukraine.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 17, 2023
The Taylor-Torres Small-Johnson Act mandating that standards for mohels should be stricter than just "He's probably pretty good with scissors."
From Washington Post • Feb. 7, 2019
So determined was this opposition in some instances that the Consistory of Paris found it necessary to impose on all the mohels an obligation, bound by an oath, that they would respect the law.
From History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance by Remondino, Peter Charles
