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USCJ Review - Fall 2006
Mikvahs Introduction
In the last few years, more and more Conservative Jews have been re-examining the mikvah, the ritual bath. The waters in which Jews by choice immerse completely at their conversions, in which traditionally observant women observing the laws of family purity immerse seven days after their menstrual periods end, in which Jews from across the community have been finding new meanings and are using to mark new milestones, over which different sectors of the Jewish world often clash, are the focus of three articles in this Review.
