Tue, Oct 07, 2008

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Jewcy Book Club

This week:
Hyperchondriac
and
I Have Fun Everywhere I Go
Welcome Authors
Brian Frazer
 &
Mike Edison
who are posting all week.
Coming up:
  • 10/13:
    Rabbi Levi Brackman and Sam Jaffe
  • 10/20:
    Jonathan Garfinkel
  • 10/20:
    Rabbi Robert Levine
  • 10/27:
    Danit Brown
  • 10/27:
    Joshua Henkin
  • 11/03:
    Craig Glazer
  • 11/10:
    Max Gross
  • 11/17:
    Seth Greenland

About Rachel Heller

I maintain a site called Open-Minded Mikveh, where we are:

1. Providing confidential, open-minded support to ALL Jewish women, married, partnered, or single, traditional or not, who are interested in going to mikveh.

2. Maintaining a list of nondenominational, community, Conservative, Masorti, unaffiliated traditional, and Reform mikvaot.

3. Posting resources of interest to non-traditional (and "regular") mikveh users.

Some of the (non-confidential, purely informational) posts I make there are crossposted on my user blog here.

Email me at onanothertopic@yahoo.com if you'd like to join the community (it's for women only). If you're not a woman, or even if you are, you can join the Facebook group. Enjoy!

P.S.: My userpic is freely available here.

Recently Added Friends

Recent Comments

"and re: environment" on Various
06/16/08 4:53 pm
Although in this case it's obviously for political reasons, it's a good idea to ask for an environmental impact investigation when a mikveh is planned.
"Is this (from Arutz Sheva) for real?" on Five Famous Sex Strikes, from Lysistrata to the Current Israeli Mikvah Workers' Boycott
04/13/08 10:40 am
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/144822 April 11th, 2008 / 6 Nissan, 5768 Minister for Religious Services, Yitzchak Cohen, ...

Recent Blog Postings

USER BLOG
Book signing in Jerusalem--new "liberal" guide to mikveh
by Rachel Heller, August 31, 2008
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(Crossposted to Open-Minded Mikveh and its attendant Facebook group)

Anyone in the holy city of Jerusalem? Check out this book signing (from Janglo). The book is not available in the U.S., AFAIK, but you can order it from the Schechter Institute.

What I'd like to know is what mikveh she recommends in Jerusalem.

You are invited to hear Rabbi Miriam Berkowitz speak on her latest book,
Taking the Plunge: A Spiritual and Practical Guide to the Mikveh
Tuesday September 2 at 7:30 pm
at Continue reading...

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USER BLOG
Various
by Rachel Heller, June 15, 2008
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(From Open-Minded Mikveh, http://mikveh.livejournal.com)

Here's a small grant that was awarded "to initiate a design phase with a green architecture firm to create an eco-friendly community mikveh." High time...I can't imagine what the utilities run on a standard facility in regular use, even a small one. The greywater alone could support an urban agriculture project (in Queens?).

Not again: more cuts to Israeli mikvaot.

I'm adding the Lehigh Valley Community Mikvah, in Allentown, PA, to the Continue reading...

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USER BLOG
Chabad mikveh at Penn State
by Rachel Heller, March 16, 2008
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(Crossposted to Open-Minded Mikveh and its attendant Facebook group)


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A second non-Orthodox mikveh for El Paso
by Rachel Heller, March 14, 2008
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(crossposted to Open-Minded Mikveh) and its attendant Facebook group)


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Another liberal mikveh for Los Angeles?
by Rachel Heller, March 1, 2008
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Apparently people are raising money for a facility along the lines of Boston's Mayyim Hayyim. See here for the L.A. Jewish Journal article and here for the press release (on PDF).


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