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About Rachel Heller

I maintain a site called Open-Minded Mikveh. Its purpose is to:

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

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

3. Post 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 a Wikimedia Commons image from the user Chris 73 and is freely available here under the creative commons cc-by-sa 2.5 license.

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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

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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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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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