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8 Reclaiming Nidah and Mikveh through Ideological and Practical Reinterpretation
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Nashim, 2016
In recent years, the Israeli “state conversion system” has occasioned much controversy. Rabbis, state officials, scholars, social activists and, to a lesser extent: converts themselves, have participated with very divergent ideological investments in debates about the shortcomings and cracks in the system.
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In recent years, the Israeli “state conversion system” has occasioned much controversy. Rabbis, state officials, scholars, social activists and, to a lesser extent: converts themselves, have participated with very divergent ideological investments in debates about the shortcomings and cracks in the system.
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A mid-18th-centurymikvehunearthed in the Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam
Post-Medieval Archaeology, 2007SUMMARY: In 2006 archaeological research was conducted in the New Synagogue, part of Amsterdam’s Ashkenazi Synagogue complex, built between 1671 and 1752, which now houses the Jewish Historical Museum. The most remarkable fi nd was a mid-18th-century mikveh or ritual bath, used for ceremonial purifi cation by immersion; such baths played a key role in ...
Jerzy Gawronski, Ranjith Jayasena
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Immersion and Transformation: A Community Explores theMikveh
Liturgy, 2012My friend and congregant, Ella Russell, of blessed memory, had a romantic relationship that ended painfully and continued to bother her for some time afterwards.
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“To Immerse their Wives”: Communal Identity and the “Kahalishe” Mikveh of Altona
AJS Review, 2012On Sunday, the twelfth of Adar, March 2, 1681, theparnasim, the lay leaders of Altona, recorded an enactment in their communal logbook, thepinkas kehillah, regulating women's use of the localmikva'ot. Designating two privately-owned ritual baths as the only approved immersion locations for most of the women in the community, they decreed that defiance ...
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Hippy in the Mikveh: The Hasidic Ethos and the Schisms of Jewish Society
2020This chapter and the next consider the same phenomenon from different perspectives. The present chapter is a story of historical processes: the emergence of the enclave form of the haredi paradigm, contrasting with early hasidic inclusivism and the revival of the inclusivist ethos in twentieth-century Habad.
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Meeting Moses Mendelssohn at the Mikveh: an Ethnodrashy
Method & Theory in the Study of ReligionAbstract This paper is a methodological response to the dominance of masculinist, logocentric, and discursive frameworks for the “modern” “scientific” study of religion. By combining feminist theory, rabbinic texts, and modern Jewish thought with ethnographic accounts of American Jewish women’s intimate embodied lives, I playfully contort the relations
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Excavating an Early 20th Century Mikveh at Strawbery Banke Museum
2014This resource is a single blog post created as part of the Day of Archaeology initiative. The Day of Archaeology project aimed to provide a window into the daily lives of archaeologists from all over the world. The project asked people working, studying or volunteering in the archaeological world to participate in a 'Day of Archaeology' each year by ...
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