Welcome to the premier of Beneath the Surface, Mayyim Hayyim’s new film about deepening mother-daughter relationships during the memorable yet challenging time leading up to a family’s bat mitzvah celebration. With support from the Boston Jewish Community Women’s Fund, filmmaker Jen Kaplan has created an inspiring and poignant portrait of girls and moms that brings […]
Continue Readingby Jody Comins, Development and Events Coordinator In December, I participated in a webinar through Network for Good about how to maximize Mayyim Hayyim’s efforts for our year-end appeal. You’re familiar with Year End appeals, right? Every non-profit is sending their best, most heart warming, feel-good story and asking you to open your checkbook one […]
Continue Readingby Rabbi Emily Aviva Kapor to my friends, guides, and colleagues of the Mayyim Ḥayyim Community Mikveh of Newton, Massachusetts uncertain feet descend stone steps downward into the water, down into the water they tell me is warm and healing. let every part of my body touch the water; let there be no barrier between […]
Continue Readingby Carrie Bornstein 2013 was a good year for The Mikveh Lady Has Left the Building. We published 99 new posts, and you (the collective “you”) viewed them nearly 31,000 times. The content was extraordinary, and varied. We’ve categorized it by topic – just take a look on the righthand side of your screen to […]
Continue Readingby Robin Weintraub, Mikveh Center Coordinator It’s almost time to build the mishkan (The not-so-helpful English translation of that is “tabernacle”, but really it’s where God lives – I mean, to the extent that God “lives” anywhere – it is the physical manifestation of God’s presence in the Bible’s imagination). Bnai Yisrael, literally the children […]
Continue Readingby Leah Hart Tennen It was a tough decision to leave my role of Mikveh Center Director at Mayyim Hayyim, one I struggled with for quite a while. I loved the organization; I loved my co-workers; I LOVED my volunteer Mikveh Guides…I still love the organization, my former co-workers (and current friends) and LOVE my […]
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Berman, Director of Education I’ve been thinking a lot lately about listening. It began as my colleague, Rabbi Sarah Tasman, and I worked to create a new program here at Mayyim Hayyim for moms and 8/9th grade daughters. Inspired by our successful bat mitzvah mother-daughter program, Beneath the Surface, we wanted to design two Sunday […]
Continue Readingby Shira M. Cohen-Goldberg You have to start somewhere. Everybody starts somewhere. But my little one started and never got there. Now I am here, crying inside. Here I am at Mayyim Hayyim. This water, this mikveh, lets me write my life, marking time with every visit. I remember immersing as my heart burst with joy, […]
Continue Readingby Sherri Goldman, Administrative and Finance Director It was my joy a few weeks ago to attend my nephew’s Bar Mitzvah in Atlanta. After an impressive Torah reading, his father and my brother, Rabbi Eric Levy, gave a sermon about nonconforming conformity among the Jewish people. I hadn’t heard of nonconforming conformity before, and I […]
Continue Readingby Carrie Bornstein Chinese food. Movie theaters. The culmination of a season’s worth of reminders about our minority status around every corner. This year, I’m spending December 25th by telling you my Chanukah story (Christmas really fell out late this year, no?). So there I was, casually pulling a pile from my mailbox, when I […]
Continue Readingby Walt Clark, Office Assistant Snow and I have a turbulent relationship. A world with snow is familiar, but fundamentally changed. If you say that you are going to attach yourself to a wood board and slide down a mountain, it appears suicidal, but with snow, it becomes something fun to do. Attaching razor sharp […]
Continue Readingby Anita Diamant The Yiddish word schnorrer has more than one meaning. It can be used to describe a habitual moocher, someone who never picks up the check, or a low-level jerk, a no-goodnik. However, the first definition in most dictionaries is “beggar.” There are all kinds of schnorrers: panhandlers on the street, the kid who knocks […]
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