The rabbi, Shlomi Tabib, was wondering if Schwartz could fund the construction of a mikveh, a ritual bath in which Orthodox women immerse every month according to ancient tradition. There was a ...

Let us know! This reporting is supported by a grant from the Howard Family. Philadelphia’s oldest Jewish congregation and continuous synagogue, Mikveh Israel, is also known as the “Synagogue of the ...

Some researchers speculated that it was a mikveh, a Jewish bathing facility for purifying the body, based on its size and structure. But experts failed to reach a conclusion due to the lack of ...

In the Orthodox Jewish community, there is a sacred space for women: the mikveh. Now it has also become a place where they can spot signs of breast cancer and domestic violence, and guide one ...

A teenage terrorist from the Palestinian Authority city of Tulkarem stabbed a man in Tel Aviv on Shabbat afternoon. The victim, a 28-year-old Israeli man was seriously wounded in his upper body in the ...