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Don’t Just Ask Your Doctor; Tell Your Doctor

Women’s health and wellness, though sometimes neglected, must be a top priority for all Jewish women and their mikveh experience. [...]

Every month as I emerge from the remodeled mikveh located a convenient five-minute walk from our home, I am visited [...]

For many mikveh observant women, our lives feel like they revolve around the mikveh. We keep track of our periods [...]

I spent a lot of time, many years to say the least, deciding if I could endure the challenges in [...]

Photo by Margo Marmon I guess I have always been afraid of water. When it turned into a phobia I [...]

Photo by Jodi Hirsch Lummerman I find it amazing how our physical bodies and our minds are so connected. I’ve [...]

Years ago I entertained the notion of becoming a mikveh lady– but as quickly as the thought entered my head [...]

We’re not making him famous because he’s a terrific human being that should be lauded. Because he isn’t. We’re making [...]

As much as we want mikveh attendants to provide us with a space that is supportive of our emotional and [...]

I don’t go to the mikveh. I haven’t for years. In my 18 years of marriage I have probably [...]

Back when I was learning Hilchot Niddah before my wedding, my kallah teacher taught me about counting the 7 “clean [...]

For most of my life, I have suffered (and am regarded as someone “recovering”) from OCD, often accompanied by depression. [...]

The Eden Center has, over the last year, developed and been teaching a 10-week balaniot class for experienced balaniot to learn [...]

[Adapted from the new book, Educating in the Divine Image: Gender Issues in Orthodox Jewish Day Schools, by Chaya Rosenfeld Gorsetman [...]

[Adapted from the new book, Educating in the Divine Image: Gender Issues in Orthodox Jewish Day Schools, by Chaya Rosenfeld Gorsetman [...]

When I – a nervous twenty-something – married the boy/man of my dreams, I knew that I had no idea [...]

When a woman comes to the mikveh, her mind may very well be elsewhere: on the intimacy to come, the [...]

Its really important to know that there is somewhere to bring any complaint. According to the website of the Office [...]