Guidance

How to Choose a Mohel

Making the right choice for your family's most important day

Rabbi Howard Glantz gently holding a newborn

Rabbi Howard Glantz is one of the few mohalim who is quick to say: there are many excellent mohalim with legitimate training who have different styles and approaches. Certainly he wants you to be most comfortable with him after asking whatever questions you might have and especially after hearing his thorough replies.

The best way to choose is by calling. Responsiveness and openness to frank questions are very telling. Rabbi Glantz’s manner will make you feel at ease and he will never make you feel that a question you ask is stupid or silly.

“I am not so modest to refrain from saying I am a good moyel and certainly after this many years, I know more of what to expect among the attendees. Still, when I was 27, fresh out of training, families expressed that they had a good experience with me. Even after only a few years as a moyel, I was honored to be chosen to perform the brit milah for sons of rabbis, cantors, pediatricians, and urologists.”

— Rabbi Howard K. Glantz

What to Look For

  • Experience with all family types

    Rabbi Glantz has decades of experience working with every type of family — very traditional to most untraditional, even with attendees who are skeptical.

  • Warmth and confidence

    "I like to project confidence while being warm and inviting. I encourage the bris to be celebratory, getting people to sing, using the traditional pageantry of the ancient ceremony."

  • References you can check

    Request recent and not-so-recent references. Look for reviews on platforms that cannot be controlled, such as Google or Yelp.

  • Willingness to meet first

    Consider meeting in person, Zoom, or Facetime with a mohel who will take the time to do so before you decide.

Call Rabbi Glantz With No Obligation

Before you decide in whose hands to trust your newly arrived package from God, call Rabbi Glantz. Ask all the questions you have and judge for yourself how the questions were answered.

215-439-5033

Or pre-register at the link below if you're ready.

Pre-Register Online