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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A directive to be issued in the coming days by the Ministry of Religious Services will contain the order that women are to be allowed to immerse in Ministry-run mikvehs without the presence of an ...

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, ...

“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 ...

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 ...

“For an institution that exists to celebrate the transformative power of water, the impact is devastating,” said Mayyim Hayyim CEO Carrie Bornstein. (JTA) — Mayyim Hayyim, a pluralistic community ...

The use of an attendant during mikvah 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 filing ...

The Chief Rabbinate and the Ministry of Religious Services in a filing with the Supreme Court agrees that the use of an attendant during immersion at a ritual bath will be changed from mandatory to ...