(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 ...
FARGO — North Dakota’s Jewish community is trying to bring back an important part of its faith tradition with the construction of a mikvah in north Fargo, the first in nearly 75 years. A fundraising ...
The religious organization seeking to replace a colonial-style home at the corner of East 28th Street and Avenue R with a new facility for ritual baths won the blessing of Community Board 15 this week ...
In our community, there is a Marine Corps captain currently on yet another deployment to Afghanistan. He serves our country as both a soldier, and a medic and a firefighter. Every day of his ...
The newly unsealed Jewish ritual bath, uncovered beneath the Western Wall Plaza, marks the first stratigraphic identification of the burnt layer from the fall of the Second Temple ...
Women living in the Beach Cities need no longer travel to Long Beach, Lomita or the Pico-Robertson area to experience the tranquility of a mikvah. Mikvah Mei Menachem, a $350,000, 1,100-square-foot ...
“For an institution that exists to celebrate the transformative power of water, the impact is devastating,” said Mayyim Hayyim CEO Carrie Bornstein. (JTA) — Mayyim Hayyim, a pluralistic community ...
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 ...
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 ...