The Rising Tide Open Waters Network has member communities across the country and around the world. Our members are working to make mikveh inclusive, accessible, and meaningful to everyone in the Jewish community.

If you are planning to visit an Existing Mikveh, you may wish to contact the mikveh in advance to learn more about their specific policies and procedures.

 

Members by Location

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Established Mikveh 

These communities have an open mikveh available for immersions.

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Emerging Mikveh

These communities are in the development stage of creating a new open mikveh.

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Aspiring Mikveh

These communities are in the first year of exploring the creation of a new open mikveh.

USA

Arizona

🛠️ Greater Tucson Community Mikveh | Tucson

 

California

🌊 American Jewish University Community Mikvah | Los Angeles

The Rabbinical Assembly Mikvah is located at the American Jewish University (AJU) in Los Angeles. Since 1981, the AJU Community Mikvah has been a vital part of the Jewish life of Southern California.

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🌊 Community Mikvah of Silicon Valley | Los Gatos

The Community Mikvah of Silicon Valley is an intimate place for Jewish spirituality. A new threshold into Jewish life, the Community Mikvah reclaims the ancient tradition of Mikvah for the diverse needs of the 21st century Jewish community in Silicon Valley and the communities surrounding it. The Community Mikvah opened its doors in January of 2008 and now welcomes visitors from around the Bay Area. Located at the Levy Family Campus in Los Gatos, its sparkling, kosher pool provides Jews with an experience of ritual immersion that can be a source of spiritual renewal, celebration and healing. We honor the full diversity of the Jewish community.

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🛠️ Maaleh Hayim | Los Angeles

A community in the process of developing a mikveh.

🌊 The Sandra Caplan Community Beit Din of Southern California

The Sandra Caplan Community Bet Din of Southern California was founded in 2002 on the premise that conversion to Judaism can and ought to be an experience that transcends denominations. The organization adheres to standards that have been endorsed by the Conservative, Reform, Reconstructionist and transdenominational movements. It is directed by a professional rabbinate that guides and welcomes conversion candidates with sensitivity and gentleness.  134 Rabbis from the Conservative, Reconstructionist, and Reform movements, as well as transdenominational rabbis, have agreed on standards and procedures; this assures that converts will be welcomed by the great majority of the Jewish community. Our pluralistic, permanent sitting court is virtually unprecedented. We are proud to welcome new Jews from diverse racial, cultural, ethnic, and class background, and from diverse gender histories and expressions. We work sensitively and individually with all candidates to bring them, body and soul, into the Jewish people.

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🛠️ Temple Bat Yahm | Newport Beach

A community in the process of developing a mikveh.

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🛠️ Temple Isaiah | Lafayette

A community exploring the development of a mikveh.

 

Florida

🛠️ Sovev: South Florida Community Mikveh | Boca Raton

Sovev is a mikveh in the making, springing up from the needs of our community.

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Georgia

🌊 MACoM – Metro Atlanta Community Mikvah | Atlanta

The mission of the Metro Atlanta Community Mikvah (MACoM) is to provide a safe, sensitive, welcoming, halachic and aesthetically beautiful environment for Jewish ritual immersion and conversion, allowing for ongoing fulfillment of spirituality, Torah awareness, healing and wellness.

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Illinois

🌊 The Community Mikvah | Wilmette

The Community Mikvah is available for all stages of life and welcomes all in the Jewish community and their supporters. It is a calming and spiritual environment where you can heal, celebrate, and move through life transitions in a calming and quiet space.

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Iowa

🌊 Mayim Rabim - Louis and Marilyn Hurwitz Community Mikveh | Des Moines

A modern mikveh rooted in tradition, the Mayim Rabim Louis & Marilyn Hurwitz Community Mikveh serves as a spiritual and education center for mikveh in the Midwest.

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Kentucky

🛠️ Lexington Community Mikveh | Lexington

The Jewish community of Lexington is exploring the idea of a community mikveh to serve the ritual and spiritual needs of Jews in Central Kentucky. Our Working Group – composed of representatives from the Jewish Federation of the Bluegrass, Chabad of the Bluegrass, Ohavay Zion Synagogue, and Temple Adath Israel – is excited to study, dream, educate, and build toward this powerful resource to support the future of Jewish life in Lexington.

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Louisiana

🛠️ Oscar J Tolmas Community Mikvah | New Orleans

A community mikvah where women, men and people of all genders and ages can celebrate life milestones and explore their spirituality.

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Maine

🌊 Beth Israel Congregation Mikvah | Waterville

The Beth Israel Congregation Mikvah is an open mikvah in central Maine.

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Maryland

🌊 The Soul Center at Beth El Congregation | Baltimore

The Soul Center’s mission is to transform Jewish life in Baltimore through innovative programming in mindfulness, healing and rejuvenation. We will create and sustain a healthy, empowered community where people feel welcomed and connected. The Center strives to engage Jews who identify as “spiritual but not religious,” and will offer opportunities to meet spiritual needs within a Jewish context to create a stronger, connected community that will be more present for each other and a greater force for good in the world.

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Massachusetts

🌊 Mayyim Hayyim Living Waters Community Mikveh and Paula Brody & Family Education Center | Newton

Mayyim Hayyim’s mission is to reclaim and reinvent one of Judaism’s most ancient rituals–immersion in the mikveh–for contemporary spiritual use; to teach about this resource to all who are interested; and to make the mikveh a sacred space that is open and accessible to all Jews and those who are becoming Jews.

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Minnesota

🛠️ Maayanot Community Mikveh of Minnesota: A Wellspring for Healing, Celebration, & Transformation | Minnesota

Maayanot Community Mikveh of Minnesota is working to build the first accessible, inclusive, and pluralistic mikveh in Minnesota. We are temporarily facilitating clergy-led immersions, such as conversions and affirmations, at the St. Paul Mikvah, which is under the auspices of Chabad. Our ultimate goal is to build a space for immersions that will mark a wide array of life moments, both celebratory and healing. We currently offer a variety of experiential and educational programs, including summer lake immersions, to introduce open mikveh to the Minnesota Jewish community.

 

 

New York

🌊 ImmerseNYC | New York

ImmerseNYC is a pluralistic, Jewish, feminist organization in New York City that facilitates deep ritual experiences and educational programs.

Deep Ritual Experiences: Our trained, volunteer mikveh guides facilitate welcoming, transformative mikveh immersions for our diverse Jewish community, which honor the sacred nature of our lives, bodies, and experiences, and reclaim an ancient ritual for a new world.

Educational Programs: We organize workshops and events about mikveh, feminism, and life transitions for adult learners, community groups, religious schools, seminary students and clergy.

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North Carolina

🌊 Libi Eir Awakened Heart Community Mikveh | Raleigh

Libi Eir’s mission is to reclaim and reinvent one of Judaism’s most ancient rituals for contemporary spiritual use; to teach about this resource to all who are interested; and to make the mikveh a sacred space that is open and accessible to all Jews and those who are becoming Jews.

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Oregon

🌊 Rachel's Well Community Mikvah | Portland

Rachel’s Well Community Mikvah continues the tradition of over 100 years of mikvah in Portland, Oregon. It is located on the Schnitzer Family Campus in a secluded, natural setting. Owned and managed by the Jewish Federation of Greater Portland with ritual supervision provided by Oregon Kosher. This inclusive community mikvah is open to all who self-identify as Jewish for traditional and contemporary immersions.

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Texas

🌊 Dallas Community Mikvah | Dallas

The Dallas Community Mikvah currently housed at Congregation Tiferet Israel has been available for anyone in the Jewish community to use since it was built in 1959. It is supported by the Vaad HaMikvah of the Rabbinic Association of Greater Dallas and is supported by annual contributions from a wide range of conregations, fees from users and a new Friends of the Mikvah program. We are proud of the partnership that thrives in support of the mikvah which allows for autonomy and creativity in the practice of this mitzvah.

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Washington, DC

🌊 Adas Israel Community Mikvah | Washington, DC

The waters of the Mikvah fell as rain. Before that, they were clouds, fog, lakes and oceans. Earlier still, they ran in rivers from deep springs that bubbled up and gathered on the earth. Our ancestors told stories about water–the Creation of the World, the Flood, the Wells, the Red Sea, and many others– that we still tell today. Water is an essential part of life and a primary Jewish symbol. Every culture has its water ritual. Mikvah is ours. By entering water in a ritualized way, we are embraced by this primal element and given a moment to experience the holiness of our own bodies. Ritual immersion is a powerful way of feeling connected to the earth, to Jewish tradition, and to God. As the only inclusive, pluralist Mikvah in the Greater Washington area, the Adas Israel Community Mikvah welcomes you. Here you will find many ways that you as an individual, a family or a community can learn about and experience this unique part of Judaism.

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Brazil

🌊 Congregação Israelita Paulista | São Paulo

The largest liberal Jewish community in Latin America.

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🌊 Comunidade Shalom Mikvá | São Paulo

Our mikvah is a welcoming place, with plenty of natural light and heat (when necessary). It is a mikvah that can be used at any time by the members of our congregation. We are a Conservative Congregation, therefore it has always been important to us to have an independent mikvah, to reinforce our belief in a more inclusive Judaism. We are building a group of volunteers to enable more ceremonies at the same time we are increasing the community’s understanding of all that a mikvah can provide.

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Canada

🌊 Toronto Community Mikvah | Toronto

The Toronto Community Mikvah is the governing body that oversees the operation of the Mikvah, housed at Kayla’s Children Centre (KCC) in Thornhill, Ontario.

​Our goal is to welcome adults and children, pre- B’nai Mitzvah candidates, confirmands, brides, grooms, conversion candidates and all Jews seeking meaningful ritual. Visits to the Mikvah can become a part of modern Jewish spiritual practice.

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💡 Jewish Community Centre of Edmonton | Edmonton

We are just starting renovation of an existing building to become our new Jewish Community Centre in Edmonton, Alberta. Our initial plans and available funds for the JCC did not include a Mikveh. Following our recent announcement of the project commencing, a long standing member of our community has come forward to fully fund the design and construction of a new public Mikvek as an integral part of the new JCC. We are very excited to move forward with our new project and are optimistically planning to welcome the whole community into the new JCC to celebrate Hanukkah 2026.

 

England

🛠️ Wellspring Project UK | London

A community in the process of developing a mikveh.

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Israel

🌊 Shmaya: A Mikveh for Mind, Body and Soul at Kibbutz Hannaton | Israel

In the heart of the Lower Galilee, amidst fields of grass and wild flowers, lies the only Masorti (Conservative) mikveh in the State of Israel. Following the dissolution of the original kibbutz, the mikveh became run-down and was in urgent need of repair. Rabbi Dr. Haviva Ner-David, volunteer mikveh director, is overseeing the renovation and rejuvenation of the mikveh. She has expertise in the halachot regarding mikveh and ritual immersion and has a welcoming and non-judgmental approach that draws Jews to explore Jewish spirituality via the mikveh.

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