Jewish Holidays

Celebrates the Exodus from Egypt. One of the Three Pilgrimage Festivals.

The Festival of Weeks. Celebrates the giving of the Torah at Sinai.

The Jewish New Year. A time of reflection and renewal.

The Day of Atonement. The holiest day in the Jewish calendar.

The Feast of Tabernacles. One of the Three Pilgrimage Festivals.

The eighth day of assembly following Sukkot.

Celebrates the completion and restart of the annual Torah reading cycle.

The Festival of Lights. Commemorates the rededication of the Temple.

Celebrates the saving of the Jewish people in ancient Persia.

The New Year of Trees. A day to celebrate nature and the land of Israel.

The 33rd day of the Omer. A day of celebration and bonfires.

The 15th of Av. A day of love and joy, sometimes called the Jewish Valentine's Day.

The Second Passover. A makeup opportunity for those who missed the first.

Holocaust Remembrance Day. Commemorates the six million Jews murdered by the Nazis.

Israeli Memorial Day. Honors fallen soldiers and victims of terrorism.

Israeli Independence Day. Celebrates the founding of the State of Israel in 1948.

Jerusalem Day. Marks the reunification of Jerusalem in 1967.

A fast day commemorating the destruction of the First and Second Temples.

Fast of Gedaliah. Mourns the assassination of the last Jewish governor of Judah.

Ta'anit Esther. Observed the day before Purim, recalling Esther's fast before approaching the king.

Fast of Tammuz. Marks the breach of Jerusalem's walls before the Temple's destruction.

Asara B'Tevet. Mourns the siege of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar.