"A local newspaper in Greater #Manchester has been forced to delete two #Facebook posts about the #Jewish community after both drew a deluge of #antisemitic comments, the newspaper’s editor has said.

The #BuryTimes published reports last week on planning approval for a new #mikvah – a ritual bath – in #Prestwich and on a #Holocaust education programme ahead of Holocaust Memorial Day. When the stories were shared on the paper’s Facebook page they attracted thousands of comments.

In an open letter to readers, #AndrewTopping, #newseditor at the Times, said the sheer volume and nature of responses forced his hand." 👀

https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/local-newspaper-removes-posts-on-jewish-community-after-being-overwhelmed-by-antisemitism/

Exciting news!

After a preliminary meeting a couple of weeks ago, in December the Chevra is beginning talks in earnest with the local Jewish Federation office to jointly work on a Miqvah and Dayschool project, with a "Red Tent" Room or Small Sanctuary for Jewish Renewal style services.

This will be a big undertaking for the community. There hasn't been a community Miqvah here since the 80s, when the old downtown synagogue was replaced by the newer one in the subburbs.

A dayschool facility is needed because in this red state, christianity is going to be forced down kid's throats in public schools. Families need options.

Stay tuned!

#miqvah #mikvah #Mazeldon #JewishRenewal #Kohenet #TikkunOlam #Jewish #Judaism

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .Mar 13th, 2025

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#QNodeOS #programmable #independent #hardware #Paleolithic #vitamin-D # Ust'-Ishim #SF12 #Habsburg #intermarriage #outcomes #inbreeding-coefficient #mikvah #menorah #Rome #well-dated #SuperCrudes #macroalgae #seaweed #standardized

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Orthodox women activists pledge to hold ‘sex strike’ to protest religious divorce refusal
By Jackie Hajdenberg March 7, 2024

"...Orthodox women activists are pledging to withhold sex from their husbands as they escalate a public campaign to help one of their own obtain a religious divorce from her husband after four years of trying.

Supporters of Malky Berkowitz, 29, are launching what they are calling a “mikvah strike” — a form of protest that leverages Jewish sexual purity rituals as a pressure tactic. It begins on Friday night and could be extended..."

Critics say, later in the article, that Jewish women are "weaponizing" halacha - without acknowledging that men weaponize it all the time with no rabbinic pushback.

One other unspoken issue is how many orthodox women who delay going to the miqvah for *any* reason are subject to domestic violence - and the Rabbinate looks away, because of...weaponized halacha.

https://www.jta.org/2024/03/07/religion/orthodox-women-activists-pledge-to-hold-sex-strike-to-protest-religious-divorce-refusal

#Mazeldon #Jewniverse #JFedi #Mikvah #WomensRights

This weekend was a really big weekend for myself and my family. My wife and 16 year old step-son completed the process of conversion to the Jewish people! They did it through our local Reform temple (a wonderful community that I'm proud to be part of), which involved a lot more ritual and ceremony than my own conversion through the #Humanistic movement a few years previous.

But much more important than noting this difference, the biggest takeaway for me was how touching my family's earnest and intense desire to join this tradition was. This was best shown by their nervousness. ---- Despite my frequent reminders that, "the rabbi wouldn't be sponsoring before the bet din if she had any concerns about your Jewishness" they were both so anxious, and it was such a beautiful, precious thing that they cared so much.

And I got to be there for it all --- they let me sit in the room during the #BetDin (both of them did great as I knew they would) and then I got to be my son's witness for the #mikvah. It was such a moving day.

Typing this mostly for my own memories, but also because I'm so proud of my household for now being 100% converts to #Judaism, which makes it all the more precious. We all worked for this and I think it is a good thing to be proud of.

#Mazeldon #JewishConversion