mikvah

"In the beginning, they played with the Sabbath, then with the Western Wall, with the mikvahs, with all kinds of games, but there is no such thing!

As a consequence, Israeli law as it pertains to deeply important issues such as marriage, divorce, conversion, access to basic secular knowledge in publicly funded religious schools, requirements for universal army service, funding of religious institutions and access to mikvahs (ritual baths) remain under ultra-Orthodox control.

It deploys educators throughout Poland to make students aware of the places in their towns where Jews once lived and worked and where there were synagogues and mikvahs. The school also teaches young Poles about Judaism.

Major grocers sell kosher meat, there are two large mikvahs, and one of the city's largest public schools even offers Hebrew, taught by a notoriously ruthless Israeli martinet.

whose synagogues, even, were threadbare, their mikvahs dank and dark,

from Australia, I didn't know where to start in finding a home where my wife and t could have the information we needed on kosher butchers, synagogues, mikvahs and more," Tamir said.

The erstwhile mikvahs and schoolhouses have been lovingly refurbished, but they are empty monuments.

Each municipality, in turn, has a rabbinical council, which provides a marriage registrar and a rabbi to arrange the chuppah ceremony and is responsible for religious services in the municipality such as kashrut supervision, an eruv and mikvahs. This is separate from the second crucial body, the State Rabbinical Courts, which, by civil law, have been given sole civil jurisdiction to decide all matters of personal status: marriage, divorce and determination of who is a Jew.

They are Jews, but there are no mikvahs in the prisons.

An additional 250 luxury apartments will be added to establish the orthodox community, as well as the necessary synagogues, schools and mikvahs. So far 80 lots have already been sold.

By now, nearly 30 towns have been funded to research and restore ruined remnants of synagogues, mikvahs and more, as well as creating exhibits and Jewish museums (including one designed by Eduardo Souto de Moura, one of Portugal's leading modern architects).

The latter was in the midst of leading the struggle to keep Judaism alive in Communist Soviet Russia, and Rabbi Menachem joined him in this work, establishing underground schools, mikvahs, and supply lines of financial aid and kosher food.