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ITIM publishes interactive map of Israel's accessible mikvahs

Immersion can be a highly dangerous or even simply inaccessible activity for women with physical disabilities who may be using mobility aids like canes or wheelchairs.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Restored mikveh in White Stork Synagogue, Wroclaw, Poland.
An ITIM rally to protest the Israeli Rabbinate’s blacklisting of American and other rabbis in 2016

Who is a Jew in the Jewish state?

Israel’s increasingly extremist religious authorities have, in recent years, rejected the Jewish identities of almost a half-million immigrants to Israel.

|BySETH FARBER
A mikve, the Jewish ritual bath [Illustrative]

NGO sues Jerusalem Rabbinate over mikva immersion without attendant

The lawsuit filed on Wednesday argues that the demand for a woman seeking to immerse alone to sign a disclaimer form violates her privacy and dignity.

|ByJEREMY SHARON