From Our Archives: Circumcision and Modern Technology

Laser Circumcision by J. David Bleich
The Use of Anesthesia in Circumcision:  A Re-Evaluation of the Halakhic Sources by Edward Reichman and Fred Rosner
Hypospadias and Circumcision by Rabbi J. David Bleich
The Making of Metzitzah – 1972 by Yehuda Pesach Shields
- Shlomo Brody

From Our Archives: Parashat Lech Lecha

Abraham’s Ordeals Revisited by Aryeh Spero (24:1, Fall 1988)
Abraham’s Nephew Lot:  A Biblical Portrait by Raymond Harari (25:1, Fall 1989)
The Use of Anesthesia in Circumcision:  A Re-Evaluation of the Halakhic Sources by Edward Reichman & Fred Rosner (34:3, 2000).
- Shlomo Brody

Minority Views and the Role of the Mara De-Atra

Minority Views and the Role of the Mara de-Atra1
By Nathaniel Helfgot
 There is a tannaitic dispute regarding which aspects of the performance of a circumcision push aside the Sabbath restrictions: R. Akiva maintains that only actions that could not be prepared before the Sabbath are permitted to be done for a circumcision on the Sabbath; in [...]