The first mikvah ever in Park Slope finally opened after more than five years of construction. The three-story William and Betty Katz Center for Jewish Life, on 15th Street between Sixth and Seventh ...

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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 ...

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A Jewish tradition of ritual bathing is renewed at south Charlotte’s Ohr HaTorah’s new mikvah. South Charlotte’s Congregation Ohr HaTorah, the area’s Orthodox Jewish synagogue, 6619 Sardis Road, ...

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 ...

Thirty people gathered in an Edgewood back yard Sunday to mark the reopening of a communal mikvah, which allows observant Jews to perform religious obligations. The mikvah underwent renovations from ...

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 ...

The first time I saw a mikvah I had no idea what it was. My college roommate took me to a small building behind her synagogue that looked like a storage unit. We entered a dimly lit area where a small ...

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