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In Berkeley, a ritual honors Jewish masculinity by sanctifying the moon

As the waxing moon shone in a dark sky, seven men gathered on Sunday for an ancient ritual in the grassy courtyard of Berkeley’s Jewish Renewal synagogue Chochmat HaLev. Leaping, whooping and hollering as the ritual reached its apex, the men were engaging in Kiddush Levana, or “sanctification of the moon,” a Talmudic rite for […]