Mikvah News

I saw not only the beauty that Judaism has to offer, but slowly, the hand of G‑d in life’s little details. Little did I know that G‑d was setting in place the tools I would desperately need in my life, more than I ever could have imagined.

I had heard that many women were reluctant to immerse at this time.

With World War II and assimilation raging, Wellington ritual bath was a ‘matter of life and death’.

Some 700 women gather for an important ritual and an evening of sisterhood

New mikvah in Winnipeg to serve bulk of Jewish community

Jewish ritual bath called a “miracle” at dedication ceremony.

Chabad-Lubavitch of Nashville adds a “crown jewel” to its new campus.

For most women, heading to the mikvah – the ritual bath that lies at the heart of Jewish family purity laws – does not involve surprise encounters with wild animals, traipsing through three-feet of snow or hacking through a frozen river in subzero temperatures to reach flowing water.

From Dimona, Israel, to Colorado Springs, Colo., Jewish communities large and small are embarking on massive mikvah construction projects. A key component of family purity, a Jewish ritual bath is seen as a necessity to be spared no expense.

Students from the Chabad-Lubavitch rabbinical seminary in Arad, Israel, joined their teacher, Rabbi Yaakov Mendelzohn, to view what has been termed a miracle in the town of Neot Hakikar just south of the Dead Sea. The location’s mikvah, which had been completed weeks ago, was rendered unusable until a freak rainfall last week. Jewish law stipulates that ritual baths contain a reservoir of rain water.

A team of rabbinical students and Southern California Jewish community members set out to the mountains to recover 600 bags of snow to fill reservoirs in two communal ritual baths.

A new public mikvah built in Israel under the guidance of a Chabad-Lubavitch rabbi occupies one of the lowest spots on earth.

The Mei Menachem Mikvah, a project of the Estonian Jewish Center in Tallinn, is the country’s first mikvah to open since World War II.

Malvern, Australia, a Melbourne suburb which was once the home to seven Victorian governors and now has become something of an artsy oasis for the country's intellectual set, is getting a new mikvah.

Chabad-Lubavitch of Houston, Texas inaugurated a new community mikvah