(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

A heated controversy over a proposed Jewish ritual bath, known as a Mikvah, came to a head in Hollywood on Tuesday night, ...

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 Jewish wedding canopy, or 'chuppah,' made in the 1860s, from the Jewish Museum's collection. Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images Anita Diamant, the prolific writer and Jewish feminist ...

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 ...

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