with Janice Rubin & Alisha Klapholz
Sunday, October 24 | Virtual  7:00 PM

Janice Rubin embarked on a photographic exploration of the ritual of mikvah in the year 2000.  She began with underwater photographs of models, and later expanded the project to include oral histories and anonymous portraits of women from across the country who spoke about their lives through the lens of mikvah.

The Mikvah Project exhibit has toured 34 cities in the U.S. and Europe since 2001, and served to educate many Jews who were unfamiliar with that ritual. 

Janice will offer insights gleaned from her explorations, which led her to a reexamination of Jewish ritual and its potential for personal transformation at all stages of life.

She will be joined by Alisha Klapholz, Director of the Houston Community Mikvah at UOS.

This program is open to women only. Pre-registration is required.
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Janice Rubin is an award-winning photographer, whose work has been published and exhibited worldwide since 1976. Her photographs of Houston immigrants were the central in the Houston Grand Opera production of The Refuge. She is a certified spiritual director, prayer leader, and facilitator of ritual in Jewish and secular settings. She currently serves as a hospice chaplain at Trinity Hospice and as a PRN hospital chaplain at Baylor St. Luke’s Hospital.  She is married to artist Charles Wiese, and they have a twenty-five year old son.

Alisha Klapholz is the Director of the UOS Community Mikvah. She grew up in Philadelphia, and moved to Houston with her husband and children in June 2015. She has been a mikvah attendant since 2013, and in recent years has helped in leading the UOS Community Mikvah. She is passionate about mikvah and making it an accessible and positive experience for all women, regardless of background and community.