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==In popular culture== * In the popular sitcom ''[[Seinfeld]]'', a {{Transliteration|he|mohel}} played by [[Charles Levin (actor)|Charles Levin]] appears in the episode ''[[The Bris]]''. * In the parody film ''[[Robin Hood: Men in Tights]]'', Rabbi Tuckman (a parody of [[Friar Tuck]], played by [[Mel Brooks]]) serves as Nottingham's "mohel extraordinaire" using a miniature [[guillotine]]. * [["Weird Al" Yankovic]]'s song [[Pretty Fly for a Rabbi]], a parody of [[Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)]], contains the line "The parents pay the mohel and he gets to keep the tip!" * In the ''[[Rugrats]]'' Hanukkah episode, the characters walk through the town center of ancient Israel past a shop titled {{Transliteration|he|mohel}} advertising a "cut rate"<ref>{{cite web | title=A Maccababy's Gotta Do What a Maccababy's Gotta Do|publisher=Nicktoons| via=YouTube | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqsAYX3S-Lg | date=7 December 2015}}</ref> * [[Philip Sherman (cantor)|Philip Sherman]], one of the most prolific ''mohalim'' in the United States, was called America's Top Mohel" and "the busiest mohel in New York" in national and regional media<ref>{{cite news |last1=Rovzar |first1=Chris |title='He's the Busiest Mohel in New York' |url=https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2009/10/hes_the_busiest_mohel_in_new_y.html |access-date=August 15, 2023 |work=[[New York Magazine]] |date=October 19, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Cramer |first=Philissa |title=Cantor Philip Sherman, the 'busiest mohel in New York,' dies at 67 |url=https://www.jta.org/2023/08/10/obituaries/philip-sherman-cantor-actor-and-busiest-mohel-in-new-york-dies-at-67 |access-date=August 15, 2023 |work=[[Jewish Telegraphic Agency]] |date=August 10, 2023}}</ref>
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