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Yom Kippur falls each year on the tenth day of the Jewish month of Tishrei, which is nine days after the first day of Rosh Hashanah. In terms of the Gregorian calendar, the earliest date on which Yom Kippur can fall is September 14, as happened most recently in 1899 and 2013. The latest Yom Kippur can occur relative to the Gregorian dates is on ...
The Hebrew calendar (Hebrew: הַלּוּחַ הָעִבְרִי, romanized: halLūaḥ hāʿĪḇrī), also called the Jewish calendar, is a lunisolar calendar used today for Jewish religious observance and as an official calendar of Israel. It determines the dates of Jewish holidays and other rituals, such as yahrzeits and the schedule of ...
Days of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust. United States, Sunday before Yom Hashoah to following Sunday. 22 Nisan (1-day communities) / 23 Nisan (2-day communities) April 4, 2021 / April 5, 2021. Mimouna. Public holiday in Israel. 16 Nisan - 5 Sivan. Sunset, 28 March – nightfall, 16 May 2021. Counting the Omer.
Sunset, 11 September – nightfall, 13 September. Rosh Hashanah (Hebrew: רֹאשׁ הַשָּׁנָה, Rōʾš hašŠānā, literally "head of the year") is the New Year in Judaism. The biblical name for this holiday is Yom Teruah (יוֹם תְּרוּעָה , Yōm Tərūʿā, lit. "day of shouting/blasting"). It is the first of the ...
Jewish people around the world observe the holiday by telling and hearing the story of Purim, distributing Purim gifts of food and drink to loved ones, giving charity to those in need, and ...
In Judaism, the High Holy Days, also known as High Holidays or Days of Awe (Yamim Noraim; Hebrew: יָמִים נוֹרָאִים, Yāmīm Nōrāʾīm) consist of: by a further extension, the entire 40-day penitential period in the Jewish year from Rosh Chodesh Elul to Yom Kippur, traditionally taken to represent the forty days Moses spent on ...
The story of Purim derives from the biblical book of Esther. In it, Queen Esther was the wife of the Persian King Achaverosh; she was Jewish, although she concealed her Judaism. Ester's cousin ...
Tu BiShvat (Hebrew: ט״ו בִּשְׁבָט, romanized: Ṭū bīŠvāṭ, lit. '15th of Shevat') is a Jewish holiday occurring on the 15th day of the Hebrew month of Shevat (in 2024, Tu BiShvat begins at sunset on January 24 and ends in the evening of January 25). It is also called Rosh HaShanah La'Ilanot (ראש השנה לאילנות ...