by Walt Clark, Office Manager We finally made it! Summer is here and the garden at Mayyim Hayyim is in full bloom. It was a winter for the ages, with even some snow still remaining in Boston. We went from… to… At Mayyim Hayyim, we try to maintain not only a welcoming space, but also […]
Continue Readingby DeDe Jacobs-Komisar, Development Manager This past weekend I saw a movie that was both over-the-top crazy and, as a feminist, enormously cathartic. I can’t get it out of my head. I’m speaking of Mad Max: Fury Road, the fourth in the post-apocalyptic action series directed by George Miller. Have you guys seen this? It’s an insane […]
Continue Readingby Lisa Dee Port White, Mikveh Guide Last week I was driving down Washington Street and decided to pull into the Mayyim Hayyim parking lot. I wanted to see if it might be possible to immerse. I have wanted to for months, thought about making an appointment, thought about dropping in, and each time, I’ve […]
Continue Readingby Walt Clark, Office Manager In the throes of late evening cold snow gleaming there is left steaming food and drink and texts from years of old. And masks of costumes depicting heroes and monsters and the gurgle of bellies who are now full. There sits a frog by the pool, which is a […]
Continue Readingby DeDe Jacobs-Komisar, Development Manager Living in the Boston area, it’s hard to think about anything these days besides snow. It’s hard to believe that just twenty days ago it had only snowed five inches the entire season; now we’re buried in a collective snowfall of more than six feet that has wreaked havoc on all […]
Continue Readingby Walt Clark, Office Assistant I remember a few years ago, a friend of mine signed up to be a Couchsurfing host. Couchsurfing.com is a website where people offer up their homes to travelers. Over the course of that summer I got talk to a lot people from all corners of the globe. One evening, I was barbecuing […]
Continue Readingby Rabbi Jaclyn Cohen I first breathed the words “mikveh,” “maybe,” and “going to” my third year of rabbinical school at HUC-JIR, the Reform Movement’s seminary. Well-intentioned classmates and friends – whom I admire and adore – were surprised. Some were skeptical. Their reactions were likely born from the same source as my own misgivings about mikveh: […]
Continue Readingby DeDe Jacobs-Komisar, Development Manager Things were kind of noisy during the past few weeks here at Mayyim Hayyim. We brought in contractors to redo all of the floor tiling on the wet side downstairs. When Mayyim Hayyim was originally built about a decade ago, the design included lovely, big squares of wood paneling amidst […]
Continue ReadingDear Readers, We’re celebrating the end of the secular year with a salute to the blog posts you loved the most in 2014. The data is in; these stories are the ones you voted for with your mouse. Follow below to your heart’s content. A happy and healthy new year to you and the ones you love. ~Mayyim Hayyim […]
Continue Readingby Leah Hart Tennen, Mikveh Guide When I was growing up, each of us lit our own menorah. There were five of us, so you can imagine how beautiful our table was with all of those candles. At some point in my young Jewish life, we started lighting some of our channukiyot by starting with […]
Continue Readingby Walt Clark, Office Assistant There was an ancient Roman god called Janus who was known as the god of beginnings and transitions. All entrance ways and exits fell under his purview. He was depicted as having two faces, one that faced the past and the other towards the future. Janus is not a widely […]
Continue Readingby Naava Pasternak Swirsky Back in May, Penny Harow Thau and I published a book, There’s a Shark in the Mikvah! A Light-hearted Look at Women’s Dunking Experiences. We had contacted friends and family and used social media to collect funny mikveh stories. After the book came out, I wrote an article for the Times of […]
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