With Shabbat fast approaching, the sun was beginning to melt in the Jerusalem sky when the phone rang in Noa Lau’s kitchen. On the line was a woman who spoke in a voice still raw from the grief of a ...

Perhaps one of the most misunderstood tenets of Jewish law, the mikvah, or ritual monthly immersion by women after menstruation, is one of those things people don’t talk about. Among Orthodox Jewish ...