But even in this new framework, mikvahs are still, by and large, a ritual for individuals, rather than groups. The Queer Mikveh Project rethinks that approach. Instead of staging mikvahs as ...

As for many observant Jewish women, it’s the night each month that Janet Ozur Bass immerses in the mikvah ritual bath following menstruation. Once she emerges from the water, husband and wife ...

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 ...