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Eikha: The Haunting Images of Jeremiah’s Women

Eikha, read on Tisha beAv, is Jeremiah’s painful cry over the enormous tragedies associated with the destruction of the first [...]

Shavuot, the holiday which celebrates Matan Torah, is a time to rekindle one’s relationship with the Torah and with Torah [...]

Megillat Esther is stark, even brutal, in its description of Esther’s lack of agency at [...]

In Parshat Terumah we read for the first time about the construction of the mishkan (Tabernacle). We are introduced to [...]

As a mikveh lady on Friday nights and holidays I’ve already gotten used to there being exceptionally special days in [...]

The fast day of Asara B’Tevet falling out on a Friday raised some questions about how to navigate Shabbat and [...]

Judaism is great at giving significance and meaning to every little thing. Through ritual and intent, Judaism can take almost [...]

Usually, The Eden Center encourages women to adopt the custom to immerse in the mikveh before Yom Kippur, a custom [...]

Hear Rabbanit Shani Taragin's wonderful shiur connecting Sefirat HaOmer, preparation for Shavuot, and out count up to immersion in [...]

This Mother’s Day let us help you celebrate our mothers. Express your love and appreciation to your mother — or [...]

I will always remember the excitement of returning home to spend Pesach with my family right before our wedding. It [...]

Photo Courtesy of Rivka Levine First published on The Eden Center blog in September, 2016 It was nearly [...]

The two items that we expect to see on a Shabbat or Chag table, that make it distinct from a [...]

Originally published by Lani Lederer Berman Apr 6, 2015 Throughout history, the mikveh has stood at the very core of religious Jewish life [...]

This Pesach, we have been invited out for dinner on the seventh night of pesach to a family who has [...]

She studied her naked body in the largecloset door mirror. “The body is simply a receptacle for the soul,” she [...]

Several questions regarding the timing of woman’s tevila arise when she has to go to the mikveh during Chanukah: What [...]

Women immersing on Erev Yom Kippur– What are you talking about?!?! There is a tradition of women immersing in the [...]