Category
mikvah
Venezuelan Jews authenticate 19th-century mikvah
Jewish Journal
June 23, 2016
Venezuela’s Jewish community has certified the authenticity of a 200-year-old mikvah, or ritual bath, found in 2013 during restoration work on a museum.
Israel’s Chief Rabbinate agrees to mikvah immersion without attendant
Jewish Journal
June 22, 2016
The use of an attendant during mikvah immersion in Israel will be changed from mandatory to optional.
More men making monthly mikvah dunks
Jewish Journal
December 14, 2015
Mikvah night has an unusual meaning in the Ozur Bass household.
After Freundel scandal, Washington Jewish women reclaim mikvah with mural
Jewish Journal
August 21, 2015
When prominent Washington rabbi Barry Freundel was arrested last year for secretly videotaping dozens of women using the mikvah adjacent to his Orthodox synagogue, the sense of sacredness of the ritual of mikvah immersion was shattered for some local Jewish women.
Voyeurism is a form of sexual assault
Jewish Journal
November 10, 2014
With all the conversations surrounding the allegations against my congregation’s former rabbi, Barry Freundel, no one is saying what desperately needs to be said — that voyeurism is sexual assault and that eliminating sexual assault in our communities should be the direction of our next steps.
For prospective Orthodox converts, process marked by fear and uncertainty
Jewish Journal
October 28, 2014
Tzipporah Laura LaFianza and her family have been living as Orthodox Jews for four years now. They reside in a heavily Jewish suburb of Washington, go to shul every Shabbat and keep a strictly kosher kitchen.
Becoming Jewish: Tales from the Mikveh
Susan Freudenheim
May 8, 2013
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).
An example to her children
Jewish Journal
January 9, 2013
Fourteen years ago, Catherine and Bruce Penso’s oldest daughter, Leah, was ready to become a bat mitzvah. But before her big day, Leah told her parents that she wanted to go to the mikveh and formally convert.
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