Dr. Emily Blake - Mohel in the NY, NJ & CT region

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• About — Dr. Emily Blake - Mohel in the NY, NJ & CT region

  About Dr. Emily Blake Emily J. Blake, MD, is a board-certified obstetrician/gynecologist who has performed thousands of circumcisions. Dr. Blake was profiled in the New York Times, the Philadelphia In...

• Jewish Women Move Into a Male Domain: Ritual Circumcision — Dr. Emily Blake - Mohel in the NY, NJ

  “Dr. Blake is committed. She wanted to be a rabbi as a child. When she went to medical school, she studied to be an ob-gyn. But as someone deeply drawn to Judaism, Dr. Blake didn’t understand why ...

• Services — Dr. Emily Blake - Mohel in the NY, NJ & CT region

  Hatafat Dam for conversion (ritual ceremony of blood for a previously circumcised male) Naming - Son or Daughter

• Dr. Emily Blake - press mentions — Dr. Emily Blake - Mohel in the NY, NJ & CT region

  9/20/20 Now that many brises have to be celebrated over Zoom, Emily Blake, Somerstein’s 64-year-old veteran mohel who has dedicated more than three decades of her life to this work, likes to begin the...

• Emily featured on Unorthodox podcast — Dr. Emily Blake - Mohel in the NY, NJ & CT region

  We talk to Dr. Emily Blake, the mohel who performed Mark’s son’s bris, about why this biblical practice has remained so central to the Jewish experience, even among the nonobservant.

• Making the modern mohel — Dr. Emily Blake - Mohel in the NY, NJ & CT region

  “Through my medical training, I had become skilled in performing circumcision, but my Jewish identity led me to question the difference between a medical circumcision and the brit milah. I was mov...