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Feminists have reclaimed Rosh Hodesh, the new moon (celebration of the new month), traditionally a semiholiday for women, creating Rosh Hodesh groups, which have become a chief venue for creating and transmitting new rituals, including birth ceremonies for girls and adult bat mitzvahs, and for female experience of what anthropologists call “communitas,” radical bonding of those sharing a liminal state or moment.
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