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A Mikveh in Har Nof, Jerusalem. May 12, 2013. (Uri Lenz/FLASH90)
February 21, 2018, 2:02 am
Pressed by court, religious council drops waiver for using mikveh alone
Judge says Jerusalem body's demand that women sign form may have intimidated them from exercising right to immerse in ritual bath unsupervised
By TOI staff
A view of Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux, France (CC-BY-SA Wikimedia Commons)
November 24, 2017, 10:58 pm
Archaeologists may have found a mikveh near Marseille
French researchers say cellar found two decades ago in the town of Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux is potentially a medieval ritual Jewish bath
By JTA
A mikveh, or Jewish ritual bath, in a Jerusalem neighborhood. (illustrative photo credit: Uri Lenz/Flash90)
October 29, 2017, 12:42 pm
Jerusalem man indicted for assaulting 3 brothers in mikveh
Prosecutors say suspect systematically preyed on victims, all minors, on numerous occasions over past two years
By Stuart Winer
October 20, 2017, 12:59 pm
Taking back the mikveh
The Eden Center insists on a zero-tolerance policy for harassment at the ritual bath, to rid a source of purity of #MeToo's
By Naomi Marmon Grumet
Mikvah immersion is required for Orthodox and Conservative conversions and strongly recommended for Reform conversions. (Mayyim Hayyim/Tom Kates via JTA)
October 18, 2017, 3:12 pm
#MeToo at the mikveh?
It can be a place where many Orthodox women feel violated on a monthly basis
By Shayna Abramson
One of the four ritual baths found at the Galilee's Magdala dig site, which are the earliest ever discovered in the country to use ground water. (courtesy)
July 26, 2017, 1:15 pm
New finds suggest Second Temple priests who fled the Romans kept up holy rituals in the Galilee
After seven years of excavations at Magdala, four rare ritual baths and a unique carved stone point to importance of ancient fishing town to priestly class
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Illustrative photo of a luxury mikvah. (Flash90/ Gershon Elinson)
July 3, 2017, 10:28 am
Forced to sign waiver to use ritual bath alone, some Jerusalem women fear coercion
The Supreme Court has ruled that making women immerse under supervision is an invasion of privacy, so why must they fill out 'permission slips' to dip?
By Yaakov Schwartz
June 8, 2017, 3:36 pm
Women’s right to be alone in the mikveh
The Supreme Court ruled that women may immerse as they choose, so why must they sign that they have done so?
By Seth Farber
May 30, 2017, 9:18 am
The brave convert
She's not sure she’d join the Jewish people if she faced the (sometimes concocted) hurdles that converts do
By Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll
A view of the newly opened Mikveh Trail below Jerusalem's Old City walls. (Shmuel Bar-Am)
March 25, 2017, 8:48 am
On the Mikveh Trail, follow the rugged path of Jerusalem’s ancient pilgrims
Newly opened park takes you past many of the capital's 200 ritual baths, used by visitors in the Second Temple era
By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am
Rabbi Hyim Shafner (Screen capture: YouTube via JTA)
March 17, 2017, 7:45 am
DC synagogue hires successor for mikvah-peeping rabbi
Hyim Shafner to take reins at Kesher Israel, almost three years after arrest of Barry Freundel for voyeurism
By JTA
Graffiti on the front of a Philadelphia mikvah building, January 16, 2017 (Screen capture: CBS Philly)
January 16, 2017, 10:10 pm
Vandals spray graffiti on Philadelphia mikveh
Building on strip mall singled out for Illegible scrawl one week after 16 security cameras were damaged
By JTA
“Online conversion” can help make Judaism more accessible to those in remote locations, but everyone isn’t on board. (Lior Zaltzman/JTA)
January 8, 2017, 5:18 am
‘Online conversion’ helps many fulfill a dream — but controversy dogs the process
Suspicion surrounds rabbinical courts convening remotely, conversions to Judaism based on long-distance Jewish learning rather than in-person rabbinic counseling
By Josefin Dolsten
On 'Younger,' Maggie (Debi Mazar), left, hosts a Shabbat dinner for her love interest, Malkie (Sally Pressman), and her friends. (Courtesy of TV Land/via JTA)
December 6, 2016, 4:42 pm
An Orthodox lesbian character — and other reasons to watch ‘Younger’
In a win for visibility, the producers of the hit sitcom successfully bring even more unusual Jewish content to the fore
By Linda Buchwald
A mikveh, or Jewish ritual bath, in a Jerusalem neighborhood. (illustrative photo credit: Uri Lenz/Flash90)
October 7, 2016, 1:07 am
Israeli women may now immerse in ritual baths unsupervised
New Religious Affairs Ministry guidelines permit women to observe custom without religious attendant present
By TOI staff
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