I was brought up in an orthodox jewish family and the practices and the community and the rituals are very important to me. and if you look atjewish history, it s basically a timeline of expulsion and persecution. and so i had really no choice but to commit my life to supporting refugees. jews have been using immersion, or mikvah, as a ritualistic practice for hundreds of years. there is a lot of difficulty in the world and when one immerses, puts their entire body under the water, they find a purity, they find a renewal. it s really at the heart of being able to do this work, ....