Shmaya is the only mikveh in Israel with this mission, and includes among its diverse clientele people converting to Judaism not through the Orthodox Rabbinate. If one gives a child a bucket and spade ...

The ceremony was organized by the Queer Mikveh Project, a grassroots initiative seeking to transform the traditional mikvah practice into a communal experience. Last Passover, a group of 125 Jews ...

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The Sephardic chief rabbi, Rabbi David Yosef, recently issued a directive at a conference of mikveh attendants about how they should react to a woman who requests to immerse without an attendant: ...

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As humans we spend 90 percent or more of our time inside of buildings. These buildings include our homes, offices, libraries, museums, healthcare facilities, gyms, and stores. Most of these buildings ...

The ultimate training for a rebbetzin is not, in fact, hosting a Shabbat dinner, or remembering the name of a congregant during Kiddush. It happens, actually, in your dining room on a late weeknight.

A rock-hewn mikveh (ritual purification bath) dating to the final days of the Second Temple period was discovered recently during excavations conducted by the Israel Antiquities Authority and the ...

Sunday night was mikveh night for C., an Orthodox Jewish woman in Manhattan — it was time for her monthly immersion in the ritual bath. The practice is a foundational part of the Orthodox Jewish ...

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With group mikvah gatherings over Zoom, the project is testing the waters for what the practice can be. Zuriel Biran, a transgender Black poet from Chicago, read one of his poems: “I reorient myself ...