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 ...
Last month, D.C. police charged Barry Freundel, a prominent Modern Orthodox rabbi from Kesher Israel Congregation in Georgetown, with secretly videotaping naked women at his synagogue’s mikvah. So ...
JERUSALEM — The Religious Services Ministry in Israel has officially adopted a regulation that makes it optional for women to have an attendant present during mikvah immersion. The ministry and Israel ...
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 ...
A mikvah is a ritual immersion pool, considered a critical component of Jewish life, although it often falls to the bottom of the list of community priorities, with synagogues, schools, social ...
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: ...
It is a gem of Jewish Bergen County. One truly experiences a palpable sense of purity permeating the attractive Chabad mikvah of Tenafly. Under the capable founding, supervision, and direction of ...
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 ...
The Supreme Court filing comes in response to a suit filed on behalf of 13 women calling for the protection of personal privacy in the ritual baths. JERUSALEM (JTA) — The use of an attendant during ...
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