On the outskirts of Rome, Italy, sit the ruins of Ostia Antica ... Archaeologists identified it as an ancient Jewish ritual bath, known as a mikveh, dating back at least 1,400 years.

I’ve visited several other European capitals and written before about the Israeli-Jewish experience in some of them. Since ...

Italian archaeologists recently made a surprising religious discovery in an unusual location: an Ancient Roman bath complex.The Appian Way Regional Park, an urban park in Rome, announced the discovery ...

Herod, Rome, and the Diaspora. In Herod and Augustus ... Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Hebrew). Reich, R. 2013. Miqwa'ot (Jewish Ritual Baths) in the Second Temple, Mishnaic and Talmudic Periods.

Belgium police conducted a series of raids on Wednesday in Jewish homes in Antwerp looking for people illegally conducting ritual Jewish circumcisions, local officials said. Police conducted raids ...

Seth Sherwood, who is based in Paris, has been writing about Italy for the Travel section since 2008. “Roma si trasforma.” Translation: “Rome is transforming.” Trumpeted from signs all ...

“You never know what you are going to hit.” He already has bumped into Jewish ritual baths, a late Roman building, and the foundations of an early Islamic palace. Each has to be mapped and ...

Sherman recommends making goal-setting more powerful by connecting it to a spiritual bath. The first chapter of the book focuses on the history of ritual bathing and the magical healing powers of ...

The Essenes, a monastic Jewish sect that lived in a nearby desert ... on the site. These ritual baths would contain around 85 gallons of mostly “living water”—rain or seawater that had ...