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Purim (Jewish)

Purim is a Jewish holiday that commemorates the saving of the Jewish people from annihilation at the hands of an official of the Achaemenid Empire named Haman. The four main obligations of the day are Listening to the public reading of the Book of Esther. Sending food gifts to friends Giving charity to the poor Eating... Read More

Passover begins (Jewish)

Passover is a major Jewish holiday commemorating the story of the Israelite's escape from slavery in Egypt. It specifically refers to God passing over the houses of the Israelites and killing the firstborn sons of the Egyptians. (Wikipedia)

Yom Hashoah (Jewish)

Yom Hashoah is the Holocaust Remembrance Day. A day to commemorate the approximately six million Jews who died in the Holocaust, and for the Jewish resistance. (Wikipedia)

Shavuot begins (Jewish)

Shavuot, or Feast of Weeks, marked the time of the wheat harvest in Biblical Israel. It begins in the evening of June 11 and extends until the evening of June 13. Wikipedia

The 17th of Tammuz

The Seventeenth of Tammuz is a Jewish fast day commemorating the breach of the walls of Jerusalem before the destruction of the Second Temple. It falls on the 17th day of the 4th Hebrew month of Tammuz and marks the beginning of the three-week mourning period leading up to Tisha B'Av. The day also traditionally... Read More

Tish’a B’Av (Jewish)

Tisha B'Av is an annual fast day in Judaism, on which a number of disasters in Jewish history occurred, primarily the destruction of both Solomon's Temple by the Neo-Babylonian Empire and the Second Temple by the Roman Empire in Jerusalem. It is regarded as the saddest day in the Jewish calendar. (Wikipedia)

Rosh HaShana (Jewish)

Rosh HaShanah is the Jewish New Year. Rosh Hashanah begins a ten-day period of penitence culminating in Yom Kippur, as well as beginning the cycle of autumnal religious festivals running through Sukkot and ending in Shemini Atzeret. (Wikipedia)

Yom Kippur (Jewish)

Yom Kippur, or the Day of Atonement, is the holiest day in Judaism. Primarily centered on atonement and repentance, the day's main observances consist of full fasting and ascetic behavior accompanied by long prayer services in synagogue, as well as sin confessions. (Wikipedia)

Sukkot (Jewish)

Sukkot is a seven day festival that both celebrates the harvest and is a remembrance of the Exodus out of Egypt. It is sometimes called "Feast of Booths" or "Feast of Tabernacles". This season is recognized by some through building of a temporary structure called a sukkah. (Wikipedia)

Simchat Torah (Jewish)

Simchat Torah a Jewish holiday that celebrates and marks the conclusion of the annual cycle of public Torah readings, and the beginning of a new cycle. It comes at the end of the festival of Sukkot. The celebration includes dancing in synagogue as all the Torah scrolls are carried around in seven circuits. (Wikipedia)