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Rebecca Erev, co-founder of the Queer Mikveh Project, blows the shofar at the first QMP mikveh event at the Albany Bulb in Albany, California, in 2015. (Chani Bockwinkel/ via JTA)
January 17, 2022, 2:37 am
The Queer Mikveh Project immerses marginalized Jews worldwide in a changing ritual
Online and in-person, a new group is making the tradition of the ritual bath communal rather than personal, and more welcoming to non-cis-gendered participants
By Rachel Román
An ancient Roman Jewish farm discovered in the Galilee, with an intact ritual bath that was moved to nearby Kibbutz Hannaton in September 2020 (Courtesy Ibrahim/Israel Antiquities Authority)
September 30, 2020, 7:37 pm
Northern community successfully transfers ancient ritual bath to new home
Kibbutz Hannaton in the Jezreel Valley raised hundreds of thousands of shekels needed to move 57-ton Roman-era mikveh discovered during highway construction
By Jessica Steinberg
Members of Chesed Shel Emes, a burial society based in Brooklyn, transport a body for burial at the cemetery it operates in Woodridge, New York. (Courtesy of Rabbi Mayer Berger/ via JTA)
April 23, 2020, 5:43 am
Jewish burial societies face difficult choices as deaths from coronavirus mount
In the last month, the Chesed Shel Emes in Brooklyn’s work has risen fivefold, as it faces hurdles from fears of contagion to mountains of paperwork
By Shira Hanau
A man walks by a mural depicting hand washing in Logan Square by artist James Mosher, Saturday, April 11, 2020 in Chicago. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
April 16, 2020, 5:30 am
From the Bible to Ignaz Semmelweis — the disease-fighting power of hand-washing
The 1847 discovery that hand hygiene dramatically decreased deaths in a Vienna obstetrics ward was not immediately adopted, but has become a front-line defense against pathogens
By Leslie S. Leighton
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