Mohel have the training, they designate a "mohel". The mohel is specially trained in circumcision and the rituals surrounding the procedure. Many "mohalim" are doctors or rabbis (and some are both) or cantors and are required to receive appropriate training both from the religious and medical fields. Traditionally, the "mohel" uses a knife to circumcise the newborn. Today, doctors and some non-Orthodox "mohalim" use a perforating clamp before they cut the skin. The clamp makes it easier to be precise and shortens recovery time. Orthodox "mohalim" have rejected perforating clamps, arguing that by crushing and killing the skin it causes a
A Serious Man Jewish women's certitude in crisis, anticipating Judith's affirmative stand that her husband should pay for her lover's funeral. "The Wall Street Journal"s Joe Morgenstern disliked what he saw as the film's misanthropy, saying that "their caricatures range from dislikable through despicable, with not a smidgeon of humanity to redeem them." David Denby of "The New Yorker" enjoyed the film's look and feel, but found fault with the script and characterization: ""A Serious Man", like "Burn After Reading", is in their bleak, black, belittling mode, and it's hell to sit through ... As a piece of movie-making craft, "A Serious Man"