Three Jewish women and a child of three have been killed and ten Jewish women have been so injured that there is no hope of their recovery by a boiler explosion at the Mikvah (Jewish ritual bath) in ...

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 ...

(JTA) — Last Passover, a group of 125 Jews gathered via Zoom for a community mikvah ritual. Dr. Harriette Wimms, a queer Black Jewish psychologist and kohenet (Hebrew priestess), opened the ceremony ...

When Mikvah Esther opened its doors in 1976, the board of directors at the LA Mikvah Society wanted to provide a community mikvah in Pico-Robertson, which was becoming a hub of Jewish life in LA. It ...

When women go to the mikvah, it is supposed to be a serene, spiritual experience. But now, a homeless encampment that’s popped up just steps away from the Pico-Robertson mikvah, Mikvah Esther, is ...

In recent decades, the Jewish community in Northeast Philadelphia has changed. Not only are there more Jews in the area, according to B’nai Israel Ohev Zedek Rabbi Yehoshua Yeamans, but the community ...

With group mikvah gatherings over Zoom, the project is testing the waters for what the practice can be. Zuriel Biran, a transgender Black poet from Chicago, read one of his poems: “I reorient myself ...