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 ...

For millennia, observant Jewish women have made monthly trips to a ritual bath called a mikvah for a kind of spiritual cleansing. In recent... Feminist Jews Revive Ritual Bath for Women Feminist Jews ...

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 ...

Water holds a special place in spiritual traditions around the world. For centuries, people have used showers, baths, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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“I flow, I change constantly, I am my grief, I am my joy, I am human, I am divine light, I can submerge when I make the time.” — Shosh Madick. A ritual bath is something that Jewish women have done ...

The Facebook group to raise funds for the Mai Shalva Center City Community Mikvah was created on Oct. 19, 2013, but the need for the mikvah long predated the page. Thirty years after the initial plan ...

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