Over the past century, the Trondheim Synagogue has weathered isolation from the rest of the Jewish world; the Holocaust, which wiped out half its community; challenges related to Shabbat ...

Outside of the small Orthodox Jewish community, many American Jews had stopped using the mikvah, partly out of objections to its perspective on women.

They have rabbis (even Orthodox ones!) who support them. Some women wish to immerse for spiritual purposes unrelated to sexual relations, such as before Yom Kippur or as preparation for ascending ...

Mikveh Israel, which served as the central research center for Eretz Yisrael, played a central, though mostly forgotten, role in the growth of the Yishuv and the establishment of Israel.

Anita Diamant, the prolific writer and Jewish feminist activist, begins her book “The Jewish Wedding Now” with a simple ...

She’s also the founding director of the Orthodox Union’s Women’s Initiative, which creates programming on Torah study, community leadership and professional development for women. She’s even the ...

Congregation Dor Tikvah is creating a mikvah, a ritual pool for cleansing and purification. It is first new mikvah built in the Charleston area in 60 years.

Congregation Dor Tikvah has begun building the first Mikvah in Charleston in over 50 years and will host a special ceremony to commemorate the first pouring of the concrete for the pools.

Sash says Orthodox women can protest sex just by refusing to go to the mikvah – a religious bathhouse where women cleanse themselves after menstruation.

Orthodox activist Adina Sash initiated the “mikvah strike” to draw attention to the centuries-old religious law that campaigners say keeps women trapped in unhappy and often abusive marriages.

Orthodox women activists are pledging to withhold sex from their husbands as they escalate a public campaign to help one of their own obtain a religious divorce from her husband after four years of ...

When lawsuits are filed against local governments that delay or block the construction of mikvahs in their communities, the defendants may face claims under local zoning rules as well as under ...