This year, we are revisiting member spotlights about our Rising Tide Network members. These spotlights were previously featured on a separate Rising Tide website that is now a main section of this website. We’re excited to introduce our amazing members to you! Original post by Savannah Lipinski, Rising Tide Intern, 2022-2023 Rising Tide Intern ImmerseNYC is […]
Continue ReadingThis year, we are revisiting member spotlights about our Rising Tide Network members. These spotlights were previously featured on a separate Rising Tide website that is now a main section of this website. We’re excited to introduce our amazing members to you! Original post by Savannah Lipinski, Rising Tide Intern, 2022-2023 Rising Tide Intern Mayim Rabim […]
Continue ReadingThis year, we are revisiting member spotlights about our Rising Tide Network members. These spotlights were previously featured on a separate Rising Tide website that is now a main section of this website. We’re excited to introduce our amazing members to you! by Michelle Day, MACoM Executive Director; original post by by Savannah Lipinski, 2021-2022 […]
Continue ReadingThis year, we are revisiting member spotlights about our Rising Tide Network members. These spotlights were previously featured on a separate Rising Tide website that is now a main section of this website. We’re excited to introduce our amazing members to you! Original post by by Sarah Panzer, 2021-2022 Rising Tide Intern Rachel’s Well Community […]
Continue ReadingThis year, we are revisiting member spotlights about our Rising Tide Network members. These spotlights were previously featured on a separate Rising Tide website that is now a main section of this website. We’re excited to introduce our amazing members to you! Original post by by Savannah Lipinski, 2022-2023 Rising Tide Intern The Community […]
Continue ReadingOriginally published by Jewish Women of Words, re-posted with permission by Karen Paul I strip off my clothes, step into the shower, scrub my skin raw. Nothing can sit on the surface of my body as I walk towards the mikveh – not jewellery, not contact lenses, not nail polish. I must be as clean […]
Continue Readingby Pamela Rosenblum I experienced my first mikveh immersion 25 years ago when I became a member of the Jewish People. It felt profound and transformational. It was many years before I had the opportunity to immerse again when, prior to the high holidays, my Rabbi introduced a small group of women to ImmerseNYC, a […]
Continue ReadingBy Cantor Rachel Stock Spilker My connection to mikveh is nearly as old as Mayyim Hayyim itself. Eighteen years ago, I was in Boston visiting family. My sister-in-law, who was then a Mayyim Hayyim board member, asked me to go to the mikveh with her as she marked a miscarriage – sadly one of many. […]
Continue Readingby Maiya Edelson When my now husband and I started planning our wedding, we sat down together and talked about the values and priorities we wanted throughout the planning process and the event itself. We spoke about the “feel” of our ceremony and reception, and how we wanted it to be fun and festive and […]
Continue Readingby Rabbi Dr. Haviva Ner-David Originally published on the Times of Israel blog To immerse or not to immerse? That is the question. And if not to immerse, or if immersing becomes impossible, can (and should) we who have made mikveh our rabbinic pulpit offer an alternative in these times? Shmaya: A Mikveh For Mind, Body and […]
Continue Readingby Rachel Hillman I first immersed at Mayyim Hayyim in September 2019, but my relationship with the mikveh in Newton began in Washington, DC five years earlier. I want you to understand how your support for Mayyim Hayyim touches lives far beyond Boston. I was 28 years old and undergoing treatment for breast cancer. After seven […]
Continue Readingby Amber Caulkins, Director of the Rising Tide Open Waters Mikveh Network I’ve been to the mikveh for many important moments in my life: for traditional reasons (converting, before my wedding), and other times for reasons like starting a new career or embarking on a move across the country. These experiences were all meaningful in […]
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