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File: Soldiers stand guard outside the Jewish Community Center in Nice, France, February 3, 2015. (AFP Photo/Valery Hache)
November 1, 2018, 5:54 pm
Graffiti about ’12 dead’ and Jesus painted on French Jewish center
Nice Mayor Christian Estrosi sees link between vandalism at community mikveh and Pittsburgh synagogue massacre
By JTA
A 17th-century ritual bath found in Pelourinho, the historic center area of Salvador, the capital of the northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia. (Screenshot from TV Bahia)
October 18, 2018, 1:57 am
Medieval mikveh may be earliest Jewish vestige in Brazil
17th century spiritual bath found in historic Salvador region
By Marcus M. Gilban
Esther Palanker-Lyss
June 21, 2018, 4:09 am
Esther Palanker-Lyss
Who needs a chandelier in a mikveh?
The cost of living a religious Jewish life is high enough without having to keep up with the Cohnses
Blessings for ritual immersion at the Mayyim Hayyim community mikvah in Newton, Massachusetts. (Joel Benjamin/Mayyim Hayyim/via JTA)
June 14, 2018, 10:54 am
Boston-area mikveh in shock after funds go missing
Mayyim Hayyim Living Waters Community Mikveh, a small but celebrated ritual bath open to all parts of the Jewish community, says an employee misused its money
By Josefin Dolsten
A spring outside of the northern West Bank settlement of Yitzhar where Israeli youths claimed Border Police filmed them naked while they were bathing on June 7, 2018. (Honenu)
June 10, 2018, 5:24 pm
Settler 12-year-old accuses border guards of filming him naked
Officers refute claim, say they were operating in the area in connection with anti-Palestinian attacks, and that 3 settler youngsters fled, refused to identify themselves
By Jacob Magid
Carrie Bornstein of Boston prepares for an injection during her surrogate pregnancy for a British-Jewish couple living in London, 2017 (courtesy)
April 28, 2018, 5:17 am
A surrogate mother’s ‘logical decision’ to help a couple living 3,269 miles away
By completing a nine-month ‘extreme babysitting’ gig, a Jewish mother aids a childless British couple — and removes stigma surrounding surrogacy in her own community
By Matt Lebovic
Rabbi Barry Freundel exiting the courthouse after entering his guilty plea, Feb. 19, 2015. (JTA/Dmitriy Shapiro/Washington Jewish Week)
April 27, 2018, 3:49 pm
Mikvah-peeping Rabbi Barry Freundel’s jail sentence cut for good behavior
DC Modern Orthodox rabbi has over a year reduced from term; mix-up indicated he’d go free in 4 months, but release date is actually in August 2020
By Josefin Dolsten
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
Naomi Marmon Grumet
October 20, 2017, 12:59 pm
Naomi Marmon Grumet
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
Shayna Abramson
October 18, 2017, 3:12 pm
Shayna Abramson
#MeToo at the mikveh?
It can be a place where many Orthodox women feel violated on a monthly basis
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
Seth Farber
June 8, 2017, 3:36 pm
Seth Farber
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?
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