This Month Is for You: Observing Rosh Hodesh as a Woman’s Holiday

Arlene Agus

1976

The Rosh Hodesh Ceremony

Rosh Hodesh is celebrated only eleven times a year. Tishre, the month Rosh Hodesh coincides with Rosh Hashanah, is omitted. If Rosh Hodesh falls on two days, the ceremony may be performed on either one or both days, though the second is the more important.

The ceremony is a celebration of divine creation and of those…

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Arlene Agus

b. 1949

Credited with establishing new rites for contemporary Jewish women, Arlene Agus, an author and feminist activist, was co-founder of Ezrat Nashim, an early Jewish feminist organization. She now serves as executive consultant to Jewish family foundations and as a teacher at the Skirball Center for Adult Jewish Learning at Temple Emanu-El in New York City.

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