Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Rabbi Hyman, Rabbi Bistritzky, and members of the Rosenberg family at Sunday’s reopening. Credit: ...

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 ...

Students from Colby College helped harvest ice from a pond for a new mikvah, or ritual bath, at a synagogue in Waterville. WHY WE’RE HERE We’re exploring how America defines itself one place at a time ...

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 ...

A working definition of the word, baptism, can be a fluid one, depending on your faith circle. The scriptures have plenty to say on the topic, which leads us to these 50 Bible verses about baptism, ...

Most religions, including the “big three” (Judaism, Christianity and Islam), incorporate water as a means of ritually cleansing the body for religious practice. And in Judaism, the mikveh is a ritual ...

Around the country, Jewish communities have all but shut down, closing synagogues, canceling Passover seders, conducting funerals by Zoom. Yet one kind of Jewish public space has remained mostly open: ...

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 ...

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 ...

Leah Nagar, a 28-year-old teacher and mother living in Baltimore, saw no way around going to the mikvah. She had recently experienced a difficult miscarriage, and dipping in the ritual bath was the ...