Initiation is a typical motif of western literature. Gina B.Nahai is a well-known modern Jewish writer in America. Born in Iran, educated in Europe and America, she has got a multinational perspective to observe and to think about what has been happening in Iranian Jewish ghettos, especially the lives of Jewish women there. Moonlight on the Avenue of Faith is a representative work of hers, highlighted with the initiation of the protagonist, Roxanna, depicts her two"departures"and one"return". It uses its intertextuality with Exodus in Old Testament, to reflect the sufferings Jews have experienced on thejr vagrant journey. Nahai also places hopes to the new lives of Jews in United States, the new Promising Land. Thus it points out that though with a content of twists and turns, depressions and miseries, Moonlight is still a feminist carol full of hope.
