Sidnie Thomas entering the ocean with her partner, Rabbi Janice to the right, at San Luis Obispo Bay, July 12. Courtesy of Sandra Caplan Community Bet Din The process of converting to Judaism is an ...

To immerse or not to immerse? That is the question. And if not to immerse, or if immersing becomes impossible, can (and should) we who have made mikveh our rabbinic pulpit offer an alternative in ...

JERUSALEM — The use of an attendant during mikveh immersion in Israel will be changed from mandatory to optional. Israel’s Chief Rabbinate and Ministry of Religious Services agreed on the change in a ...

The staff at Mayyim Hayyim: Living Waters Community Mikveh loves to think up catchy program titles having to do with — what else — water. Their latest wordplay, “Gathering the Waters: Ancient Ritual, ...

Rabbi Haviva Ner-David preparing a baby and his father for immersion at a mikveh in Hanaton, Israel in 2023. (Courtesy of Rabbi Haviva Ner-David) The story stops short of throwing ichthyology, the ...

“Immersion without the presence of a balanit may have real implications for the kosher status of the immersion,” the decision states. According to Eden, a “mikveh education center,” some 750,000 ...

When Rabbi Emma Gottlieb immersed herself in a hot-tub-size pool in Auburndale this month, she may have made mikveh history. Gottlieb took part in a ritual especially created by Mayyim Hayyim Living ...

As growing numbers of non-Orthodox Jews flock to the mikveh — a trend that has spread over the last decade — an inevitable clash between the traditional and the modern is beginning to emerge, with ...

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After six months of delays and three years of construction, a luxuriously modern new mikveh opened last Sunday on the Upper West Side, a far cry from the funky but soulful ritual bath that served the ...

Late on a recent Wednesday afternoon, Judith Golden and Suzanne Rosenthal perched at their desks in a small room in the depths of American Jewish University (AJU). It was a quiet day on campus; only a ...

The ‘Splainer (as in “You’ve got some ‘splaining to do”) is an occasional feature in which Kimberly Winston and other RNS staff give you everything you need to know about current events to hold your ...