About Elisheva Wolfe

Elisheva Wolfe is a writer who sometimes lives in Chicago and sometimes lives in New York. She likes hosting Shabbat dinners, learning Torah, and saying the thing that everyone is thinking but no one is ballsy enough to say.

Does a Mikvah Dunk Make Pre-Marital Sex Kosher?

By Elisheva Wolfe February 18, 2008

On January 24th, Rabbi Yona Metzger, the Chief Ashkenazi rabbi in Israel, issued a prohibition against unmarried women immersing themselves in mikvahs. Rabbi Metzger's decree was in response to the recent condoning of premarital sex by various other rabbis and … Read More