The Jews of Color Initiative is proud to support Rising Tide Open Waters Mikveh Network for a Jews of Color cohort of their 8-week program, Seven Steps Online Mikveh Guide Training. The course, led by and for Black, Indigenous, Jews of Color, Sephardi, Mizrahi, and multiracial Jews, held its first session on February 12, 2023 with a cohort of **** members.
Mikveh is one of the oldest rituals in Judaism, and involves immersion in living water to mark transitions such as marriage, conversion, or spiritual preparedness. The Rising Tide Open Waters Mikveh Network’s mission is to inspire, strengthen and support communities that embrace an open, inclusive and welcoming approach to ritual immersion. Rising Tide seeks to meet the spiritual needs of Jewish people across the full spectrum of the Jewish community, which includes seeing their identities represented by mikveh guides, and believes that diverse ritual facilitators can make mikveh accessible to Jews of all denominations, ages, races, genders, sexual orientations, and abilities.