USA Today quotes Blake re: Trump’s potential role in bris

Emily Blake was quoted in a March 30, 2016 USA Today article about the birth of Donald Trump’s grandson titled, “Next up for Donald Trump? A circumcision ceremony”:

“However, according to Jewish tradition, he (Trump) cannot have the role of the “sandek,” the person, often a grandfather, who holds the child while it is being circumcised by a mohel (pronounced like “royal”). That job must go to a practicing Jew, said New York City-based Dr. Emily Blake, a board-certified obstetrician-gynecologist who now works full-time as a mohel.

“So unless he’s going to convert very quickly,” joked Blake, “I don’t think he’ll be doing it. He doesn’t want to lose that Christian vote.”

But, she says, he could perform the role of the “kvater,” the person who carries the baby into the room. “The rules on that are a little looser,” she said.