mikveh

My Second Trip to the Mikveh

June, 1997, Cincinnati, OHIt was the end of a journey. It was the beginning of a transition. I had spent ...

Safety Doesn’t Happen by Accident

I hope we can all agree that the tragedy of the Freundel case is the harm that was done to ...

The Time Is Now: Express Your Rabbinic Will

There are several things that happen when a stone is thrown into a lake. First, the stone pierces the top ...

Forget the Man, Fix the System

This week marks the fifteenth anniversary of my conversion to Judaism.As for so many others, my process of entering into ...

Tomorrow Night

I am supposed to go to the mikveh tomorrow night.The mikveh and I have never been friends; the first time I immersed, ...

Open the Mikveh During the Day

Vashti is a heroine of the Purim story because she chose not to expose her naked body to the Court despite ...

Jewish Women Deserve Better

Five months ago, I wrote about my struggles as a newly married woman in adjusting to the observance of Taharat ...

No More Whispers

What can happen when we take mikvah out of the realm of the hidden, and bring it into a space ...

Confronting Mikveh with Honesty

There have been numerous conversations recently about mikveh, tzniut, niddah, and sexual relationships within the Orthodox community. They have spanned ...

From Isolation to Community: Opening the Conversation on Mikvah

Two weeks each month, I refrain from physical intimacy with my husband because of Jewish law. It is not only ...