(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 ...

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 ...

A new and spacious mikvah was inaugurated this week at the Yeshivas Tomchei Tmimim in Brunoy, France, one of the flagship ...

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 ...

When Rabbi Daniel Liben steps into the warm waters of the Mayyim Hayyim (Living Waters) mikvah in Newton, Mass., he will pause on each of the seven steps leading into the pool to ponder the state of ...

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 ...

Two years ago, advertising executive Jeff Berman was going through big changes: He had lost his job, founded his own company and was turning 40. His wife, Lisa, a volunteer at Mayyim Hayyim, a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. THE RITUAL purification bath (mikveh) from the Second Temple period. (photo credit: Ari Levy, Israel Antiquities Authority) The ...

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 ...