Mikveh

Rights org. files complaint after Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yosef shames women for private mikveh use

Religious rights organization ITIM said Chief Rabbi David Yosef's comments shaming women who want to use a mikveh privately were "halachically harmful."

|BySARAH BEN-NUN
Sephardi Chief Rabbi David Yosef, December 28, 2025; illustrative.
A new mikveh ritual bath in the Jewish settlement of Bat Ayin in Gush Etzion, West Bank, November 6, 2019.

The mikveh belongs to the women of Israel, not to those who yell at them - opinion

Publicly funded mikvaot exist to serve the people of Israel. Every woman who enters should be treated with respect.

|BySETH FARBER
Aerial photo of Tel Hebron's Second Temple period mikvah, April 30, 2026.

Project to make Tel Hebron’s Second Temple mikveh accessible to visitors nearly complete, INPA says

Burda added that visitors to the site will be able to learn about the bath’s significance, its place within daily life, and “momentarily experience the religious and social reality of that era.”

|ByMIRIAM SELA-EITAM
Restored mikveh in White Stork Synagogue, Wroclaw, Poland.

Ministry publishes list of mikvaot with shelters nearly two weeks into war, following ITIM appeal

The announcement came after days in which women were left without a clear official tool to determine which facilities met wartime safety requirements.

|BySARAH BEN-NUN

'Dozens of boys abused in Komemiyut'

Channel 10: Community kept sexual abuse claims under wraps for years.

AUGUST 6, 2010By JPOST.COM STAFF
rape victim illustrative 311