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Phone: 617-244-1836
1838 Washington St
Newton
Massachusetts 02466
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Board Members and Affiliation: Diane Black, Campaign Chair

Paula Brody, Membership Chair

Judy Chudnofsky, Mikveh Guide, Campaign Co-Chair

Jason Chudnofsky

Anita Diamant, Board President

Amy Fleming, Mikveh Guide, Mikveh Educator

Roz Garber, Secretary

Rabbi Leslie Gordon, Rabbinic Advisory Committee

Patti Grossman, Budget and Finance Committee

Rabbi Jonathan Kraus, Rabbinic Advisory Committee

Rabbi Judith Kummer, Ritual Creation Team

Donna Leventhal

Rabbi Daniel Liben, Rabbinic Advisory Committee

Rabbi Barbara Penzner, Rabbinic Advisory Committee

Sari Anne Rapkin, Treasurer, Chair - Budget and Finance Committee, Personnel Committee

Jennifer Slifka-Vidal, Esq., Personnel Committee

Carol Targum, Mikveh Guide

Cantor Louise Treitman

Laura Weissman Davis

Lisa Wexler, Chair, Building and Grounds Committee

Mission:
Mayyim Hayyim Living Waters Community Mikveh and Education Center, Inc. (Mayyim Hayyim) is a non-profit organization, founded in the spring of 2001.  The mission of Mayyim Hayyim is to reclaim and reinvent one of our most ancient Jewish rituals “immersion in the mikveh” for contemporary spiritual uses and to make this new, sacred space open and accessible to all Jews in the Greater Boston area.
Results:
Since our opening in 2004, we have provided more than 6,600 immersions (there were 1,400 immersions last year), including more than 1,200 conversions. This year our Education Center hosted 87 programs for 1,525 people, including religious school kids, teens, college students and adults.  Hundreds of people have celebrated weddings and b’nei mitzvah, converted to Judaism with dignity and honor, found solace in the face of illness and trauma, and explored the ritual of monthly immersion. Mayyim Hayyim has hosted training and information sessions for communities around the world looking to establish local mikvaot and educate their communities.

Mayyim Hayyim is a threshold into Jewish life—a place where the spiritually diverse needs of 21st century Jews are met by reclaiming the ancient tradition of immersing in the mikveh.
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Jay
11/26/09
Very meaningful experience. Guide was excellent. Facilities are top-notch and exceed expectations. Only downside: suggested donation was a bit high... more »
Matthew Robinson
11/02/09
It was beautiful Even tho one of the mikveh was out of order, my wife and I had a truly spiritual experience I especially enjoyed and felt comfortable working with Sidney who I have since seen and thanked I hope to make stronger bonds with myself, my wife, and the community through this experience ... more »
jerry
10/29/09
About 4 years ago I attended the National Mikveh Conference sponsored by Mayyim Hayyim. At that time I was only interested in mikveh as an element in the Jewish conversion process. My visit to Mayyim Hayyim opened up an awareness of the full potential of mikveh to express Jewish spirituality at a ... more »
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