A former Prestwich used car sales showroom will become a female-only bathhouse for Jewish women to use during their menstrual cycle.

A poll released in November by the Jewish People Policy Institute found that 27% of Israelis have increased their observance ...

A Jewish ritual bath, or mikveh, dating back to the final days of the Second Temple period has been unearthed near the ...

Israel now finds itself caught between competing imperatives. It seeks to preserve security and avoid international ...

Researchers say the mikveh likely served both local residents and the many pilgrims who visited the Temple in the years ...

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A Jewish person living during the Second Temple period — roughly 516 BCE to 70 CE — was required to immerse in a mikveh before entering the Temple. As a result, ritual baths were built throughout ...

Excavations beneath the Western Wall Plaza uncovered a rock-hewn mikveh, or ritual bath, dating to the final days of the ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a 2,000‑year‑old Jewish ritual bath beneath the Western Wall Plaza in Jerusalem that bears ash and destruction debris from the Roman conquest of the city in 70 C.E., ...

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 ...

The ritual bath was found sealed beneath a layer of destruction dated to 70 CE, in which researchers found burned ash and numerous artifacts that offer a snapshot of life just before the city fell.