“Do you believe in the literal truth of the resurrection of Jesus Christ?” We had just tuned our instruments, the way we did at the beginning of every lesson, when my violin teacher abruptly asked me ...

In artist Yona Verwer’s “Immersion VIII,” a nude woman in a fetal position floats in a swirl of water. The image is at once ethereal and surreal, not unlike Verwer’s first mikveh experience, a ...