didn't know about Nitza, the Israel Center for Mother's Health, which helps many women cope with PPD. And if the mother of a bride told us her daughter had been the victim of rape, we didn't know there's an organization that helps so the bride could build her new home without trauma. When a woman with obsessive compulsive disorder comes to the mikve, it is very difficult to deal with it. Now that I've finished the Eden Center course, I know better how to cope with these situations and really help women in the community. Sometimes one can even say that a single telephone number or business card changed things." Yehudit Shabta, a translator and editor who "moonlights" as a Jerusalem mikve attendant as a good deed, not to make money, told The Jerusalem Post that her colleagues are mostly haredi women who barely graduated from high school. Attendants earn NIS 100 per shift, no matter how many hours they work; winter hours are much longer than summer ones because of the different in sunset times. Shabta added that she didn't know how the attendants made ends meet. "Many support their husbands who study Torah full time and have very low social status because of what they do and earn. But though they earn less than the minimum wage, they are very good, fine and sensitive women." The religious councils' mikve administration, which has for decades been very conservative, is gradually opening up to new ideas. Although Eden Center volunteers