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SANDEE BRAWARSKY
Special to the Jewish News

F

or more than 25 years, nov-

elist and professor E.M.
Broner has been creating
Jewish rituals — from a
feminist Passover seder to a mikva cer-
emony for Jewish and African-
American women seeking to halt
racism, from healing circles for friends
with cancer to a tashlich ceremony
during the High Holy Day period,
with shofar blowing on a pier over-
looking New York's Hudson River.
For Broner, as she explains in her
new book, Bringing Home the Light: A

Jewish Woman's Handbook of Rituals
(Council Oak Books; $22.95), "the
ultimate purpose of ritual is two-fold
and contradictory: to maintain the sta-
tus quo, to step in place, and, con-
versely, to change, to alter."
She turns to rituals to mark a
moment in time, to connect it to
other times, to sing of that moment,
to transcend it and be transformed by
it. Her basis is often in Jewish tradi-
tion, then — like an artist, creating
anew — she adds layers of personal,
political, contemporary relevance.
"You need a poet's sensibility, a
concept of metaphor, a sense of a
thing acrobatic, so you wing from a