Going to mikvah, particularly if you’re not Orthodox, can be complicated. But nowhere is it more complicated than in Israel, where women are required to establish that they are married or will soon be ...

When women go to the mikvah, it is supposed to be a serene, spiritual experience. But now, a homeless encampment that’s popped up just steps away from the Pico-Robertson mikvah, Mikvah Esther, is ...

Mikvah.org is proud to mark the upcoming second anniversary of its Taharas Hamishpacha PURE Helpline—a confidential, woman-to ...

It’s time for Simchat Torah, but I don’t feel much like dancing. A promise I made long ago has been broken. In the summer of 1986, I wrote what many consider the first piece about non-Orthodox women ...

Leah Nagar, a 28-year-old teacher and mother living in Baltimore, saw no way around going to the mikvah. She had recently experienced a difficult miscarriage, and dipping in the ritual bath was the ...

Though demure in their dress, the women of the Mikvah Society of Los Angeles were not as modest with their checkbooks during an “Evening of Auction and Ambiance,” a Nov. 2 fundraiser for the ...

A former Prestwich used car sales showroom will become a female-only bathhouse for Jewish women to use during their menstrual cycle.

Women’s ritual immersion has distancing built in, but the continued operation of the baths raises questions with nearly all public spaces closing temporarily. NEW YORK (JTA) — When the rabbis of New ...

This Tisha B’av, Congregation Mikveh Israel observed the fast day differently than it had in previous years. On July 16, women congregants from the synagogue recited the five books from the Scroll of ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Rabbi Hyman, Rabbi Bistritzky, and members of the Rosenberg family at Sunday’s reopening. Credit: ...