To explore Jewish women’s experiences of their weddings ... The pre-wedding obligation of mikvah, or mikveh – when the naked bride fully immerses in a pool of flowing water – is essential ...

In one corner of the structure, there was a hole through which a pipe carried water to fill up the mikvah. These mikva'ot are used in the Jewish tradition to purify people and objects. During ...

Freundel, who was sentenced in May to 6 1/2 years for videotaping dozens of women at a Washington, D.C., mikvah ... JTA has documented Jewish history in real-time for over a century.

Seeking guidance, Polakoff reached out to Sharsheret, a Jewish nonprofit organization that supports women affected by breast ... of periodic immersion in a mikvah ritual bath.

When Shoshana Polakoff was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2019 at the age of 37, her life was suddenly turned upside down. With three young children at home and intense ...

Rabbi Shneur Cadaner, the Chabad Shliach of the Quad Cities of Iowa, writes about the knock on his door from a pastor of a local Lutheran church and what he wanted to know about the construction site ...

Mikvah is ritual immersion in fresh, "living" water used by men and women for physical and spiritual purification. * Listings with an asterisk are part of the JUF/JF partnership of agencies serving ...

A view into the mikvah found at Ostia Antica. | Credit: Archaeological Park of Ostia Antica Archaeologists working at Ostia Antica, an ancient Roman port city, have discovered the oldest Jewish ...

Instead, the archaeologists — budding and not — last summer uncovered what may be the oldest existing example in the ancient Roman world of a mikvah, a Jewish ritual bath. They have ...

A new Mikvah Taharah has been inaugurated in Limassol, as part of the ten-year anniversary celebrations of Chabad of Limassol, marking the continued growth of the local Jewish community ...