Men immersing in correlation with their partners’ menstrual cycles has been an almost unheard-of practice. NEW YORK (JTA) – Mikvah night has an unusual meaning in the Ozur Bass household. As for many ...

(JTA) — Mikvah night has an unusual meaning in the Ozur Bass household. As for many observant Jewish women, it’s the night each month that Janet Ozur Bass immerses in the mikvah ritual bath following ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Jewish women in New Haven started plunging into purification waters more than a century and a half ...

Two years ago, advertising executive Jeff Berman was going through big changes: He had lost his job, founded his own company and was turning 40. His wife, Lisa, a volunteer at Mayyim Hayyim, a ...

Water is a ubiquitous and potent symbol. It can mean life, from irrigation to amniotic fluid; it can mean physical healing or inner cleansing, as in the literal or symbolical cleaning of a wound; it ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mikvah night has an unusual meaning in the Ozur Bass household. As for many observant Jewish women, it’s the night each month that Janet Ozur Bass immerses in the mikvah ritual bath following ...