But even in this new framework, mikvahs are still, by and large, a ritual for individuals, rather than groups. The Queer Mikveh Project rethinks that approach. Instead of staging mikvahs as ...

It is a religious requirement for all married Orthodox women to go to the mikveh, or ritual bath, at night seven days after their period has finished. It is a way to spiritually purify themselves.

The rabbi, Shlomi Tabib, was wondering if Schwartz could fund the construction of a mikveh, a ritual bath in which Orthodox women immerse every month according to ancient tradition. There was a ...

The University of Haifa recently announced that 160 ancient coins depicting Alexander Jannaeus were found during an ...

For artist Nicki Green, the mikveh-or Jewish ritual bath-can offer a site of Jewish queerness and transness. A ceramic sculpture representing the mikveh is central to the exhibition "Nicki Green ...

Let us know! This reporting is supported by a grant from the Howard Family. Philadelphia’s oldest Jewish congregation and continuous synagogue, Mikveh Israel, is also known as the “Synagogue of the ...

She mentioned the possibility that Juan incorporated Jewish rituals into the Myoken faith after learning Judaism from conversos and introduced it to Seibee. She added that a mikveh similar to the ...