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 ...
WEST ASHLEY — Light fixtures dangle from the ceiling, dirt covers the unfinished floors and a large rectangular pit sits near the opening of the building where a wall was removed. One wing of the ...
A magnificent new mikvah was recently inaugurated in the southern Russian city of Sochi, in a moving and uplifting ceremony ...
Rabbi Aryeh Weinstein at the Lubavitch of Bucks County’s new mikvah on State Street (Photo by Jarrad Saffren) “Do I need to take my wedding ring off?” I asked Rabbi Aryeh Weinstein at the Adele ...
Perhaps one of the most misunderstood tenets of Jewish law, the mikvah, or ritual monthly immersion by women after menstruation, is one of those things people don’t talk about. Among Orthodox Jewish ...
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 ...
The heated controversy surrounding a proposed Jewish ritual bath, or Mikvah, at 1434 Monroe Street, is set to come to a head ...
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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 ...