This winter, Toronto’s Chabad community once again demonstrated its deep commitment to the mitzvah of Taharas Hamishpacha ...

The Jewish women’s practice of going to the mikvah could do a lot to further self-care, mental health and relaxation for ...

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 ...

When Rabbi Daniel Liben steps into the warm waters of the Mayyim Hayyim (Living Waters) mikvah in Newton, Mass., he will pause on each of the seven steps leading into the pool to ponder the state of ...

Mikvah Girls tells the story of two orthodox Jewish women in New Jersey who are supposed to be performing a monthly cleansing ritual at a mikvah. Instead, Aviva and Chava are actually holding meetings ...

WATERVILLE, Maine (WABI) - Waterville’s Beth Israel Synagogue recently completed renovations that include a new mikvah, a bath used in Jewish rituals. “It’s very crucial when people convert to Judaism ...

In recent decades, the Jewish community in Northeast Philadelphia has changed. Not only are there more Jews in the area, according to B’nai Israel Ohev Zedek Rabbi Yehoshua Yeamans, but the community ...

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Sometimes paths intersect and juxtapose in unpredictable ways. This is a story of how my friendship with the poet Hava Pinhas-Cohen, some of whose poetry I have translated for this paper, intersected ...