Researchers say the mikveh likely served both local residents and the many pilgrims who visited the Temple in the years ...

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

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 ...

The ritual bath was found sealed beneath a layer of destruction dated to 70 CE, in which researchers found burned ash and numerous artifacts that offer a snapshot of life just before the city fell.

Excavations beneath the Western Wall Plaza uncovered a rock-hewn mikveh, or ritual bath, dating to the final days of the ...

Israel now finds itself caught between competing imperatives. It seeks to preserve security and avoid international ...

When Estonia's Chief Rabbi Shmuel Kot first proposed a new synagogue, members asked why it was needed. They pointed out the aging population and wondered who would fill it.The post ...

The spiritual jolt of those first weeks has not fully faded, and increased religious practice has become part of the ...

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(RNS) — Stop me if you’ve heard this one: A Reform rabbi visits an Orthodox community, and a good time is had by all. Adas Kodesch Shel Emeth, an Orthodox synagogue in Wilmington, Delaware, celebrated ...

A Jewish ritual bath, or mikveh, dating back to the final days of the Second Temple period has been unearthed near the ...