Once a month, Sarah Deitsch takes part in a ritual that creates a one-on-one connection to God and adds a sense of newness to her 20-year marriage. Deitsch immerses herself in the Columbus Community ...
Once a month, Sarah Deitsch takes part in a ritual that creates a one-on-one connection to God and adds a sense of newness to her 20-year marriage. Deitsch immerses herself in the Columbus Community ...
In Jewish communities across Long Island, interest is growing in an ancient ritual with intricate rules in which women immerse themselves in small, elegant indoor pools. Known as mikvahs, the pools ...
The Facebook group to raise funds for the Mai Shalva Center City Community Mikvah was created on Oct. 19, 2013, but the need for the mikvah long predated the page. Thirty years after the initial plan ...
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - For the first time in over 50 years, the Charleston Jewish community is getting a new Mikvah. A Mikvah is a pool of water that is used for ritual cleansing and purification ...
The first mikvah ever in Park Slope finally opened after more than five years of construction. The three-story William and Betty Katz Center for Jewish Life, on 15th Street between Sixth and Seventh ...
The ‘Splainer (as in “You’ve got some ‘splaining to do”) is an occasional online feature in which Kimberly Winston and other RNS staff give you everything you need to know about current events to hold ...
Around the country, Jewish communities have all but shut down, closing synagogues, canceling Passover seders, conducting funerals by Zoom. Yet one kind of Jewish public space has remained mostly open: ...
The first time I saw a mikvah I had no idea what it was. My college roommate took me to a small building behind her synagogue that looked like a storage unit. We entered a dimly lit area where a small ...
Nicki Green, "The Porous Sea (Tub)" (2019), glazed earthenware with cotton quilt (all images courtesy the artist unless noted otherwise) Just before I started writing this article, my partner and I ...
Jews looking for a destination wedding spot that offers sun, sand and a fully halachic experience can now pick Jamaica, where a local Chabad house opened the island’s only mikvah. “I think this will ...
Last month, D.C. police charged Barry Freundel, a prominent Modern Orthodox rabbi from Kesher Israel Congregation in Georgetown, with secretly videotaping naked women at his synagogue’s mikvah. So ...
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