The Forward

The Queer Mikveh Project immerses marginalized Jews in a changing ritual

(JTA) — Last Passover, a group of 125 Jews gathered via Zoom for a community mikvah ritual. Dr. Harriette Wimms, a queer Black Jewish psychologist and kohenet (Hebrew priestess), opened the ceremony ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Mikveh unearthed beneath Western Wall plaza shows evidence of Temple’s destruction

Archaeologists say excavated bath, filled with ash and debris, offers a window into the city’s spiritual life 2,000 years ago ...
The Times of Israel

Fire-blackened 2,000-year-old mikveh is a portal into 70 CE Roman conquest of Jerusalem

The newly unsealed Jewish ritual bath, uncovered beneath the Western Wall Plaza, marks the first stratigraphic identification of the burnt layer from the fall of the Second Temple ...

Israel uncovers Second Temple-period mikveh beneath Western Wall

The ritual bath was found sealed beneath a layer of destruction dated to 70 CE, in which researchers found burned ash and ...
The Christian Post on MSN

Ritual bath bearing ash uncovered in Jerusalem testifies to Second Temple destruction, archaeologists say

Excavations beneath the Western Wall Plaza uncovered a rock-hewn mikveh, or ritual bath, dating to the final days of the Second Temple period and providing insight about the days leading up to the ...
inforum

Fargo Orthodox Jewish community strives to bring back the ritual bath

FARGO — North Dakota’s Jewish community is trying to bring back an important part of its faith tradition with the construction of a mikvah in north Fargo, the first in nearly 75 years. A fundraising ...
The Forward

American Jews Are Getting Rituals Like Mikveh All Wrong

In our community, there is a Marine Corps captain currently on yet another deployment to Afghanistan. He serves our country as both a soldier, and a medic and a firefighter. Every day of his ...
The Brooklyn Paper

Ritual bath brawl – Turmoil over new mikvah

The religious organization seeking to replace a colonial-style home at the corner of East 28th Street and Avenue R with a new facility for ritual baths won the blessing of Community Board 15 this week ...
Jewish Journal

New South Bay mikvah puts the ritz in the ritual bath

Women living in the Beach Cities need no longer travel to Long Beach, Lomita or the Pico-Robertson area to experience the tranquility of a mikvah. Mikvah Mei Menachem, a $350,000, 1,100-square-foot ...
Hyperallergic

Queering the Jewish Mikvah

Nicki Green, "The Porous Sea (Tub)" (2019), glazed earthenware with cotton quilt (all images courtesy the artist unless noted otherwise) Just before I started writing this article, my partner and I ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

The Queer Mikveh Project immerses marginalized Jews in a changing ritual

With group mikvah gatherings over Zoom, the project is testing the waters for what the practice can be. Zuriel Biran, a transgender Black poet from Chicago, read one of his poems: “I reorient myself ...