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 ...

In Israel last week, Dr. Chana Adler Lazarovits and Rabbanit Sarah Segel-Katz ruled that women should not attend mikvah if they cannot ascertain that the required hygienic standards were followed.

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 ...

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Proposed street rendering of Hollywood Mikvah. HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — The heated controversy surrounding a proposed Jewish ritual bath, or Mikvah, at 1434 Monroe Street, is set to come to a head on Dec. 9 ...

Rabbi Aryeh Weinstein at the Lubavitch of Bucks County’s new mikvah on State Street (Photo by Jarrad Saffren) “Do I need to take my wedding ring off?” I asked Rabbi Aryeh Weinstein at the Adele ...

(JTA) — Last Passover, a group of 125 Jews gathered via Zoom for a community mikvah ritual. Dr. Harriette Wimms, a queer Black Jewish psychologist and kohenet (Hebrew priestess), opened the ceremony ...