Rabbi Gil Leeds, a San Francisco mohel and director of Chabad at Berkeley has been getting a lot of “mazel tovs” since Judge Loretta Giorgi  removed the proposal to ban male circumcisions in San Francisco yesterday.

The California judge brought a sigh of relief to San Francisco’s Jews and the broader Jewish community in her ruling that the ban would infringe on religious freedom, and that state law “leaves no room for localities to legislate in this area.”

But Leeds, who joined the JCRC’s efforts against the attempted ban, is circumspect about the victory.

“The ruling defeated the ban for now, but we are still not in the clear,” he told lubavitch.com. Opponents of circumcision may yet try to find ways to legislate against circumcision by non-medical professionals, which essentially targets brit milah—the Jewish ritual practice generally performed on the eighth day after the birth of a boy.

The drive to ban circumcision, he said, is disturbing on many levels. “I think the Jewish community realized that there are anti-Semitic overtones to this,” and the fact that it garnered enough votes to put it on the ballot is cause for concern.

The issue, says Leeds, has not been addressed at its root. But he admits that in an ironic way, it has raised tremendous awareness of this ancient ritual among Jewish people who began seeking out his services as a result. It’s also brought many adults who were not circumcised in infancy, he says, wanting to have a brit.