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 Jewish Holidays

 
    • Shavuot
      Shavuot
      ​Shavuot, the Festival of Weeks, is one of the three pilgrimage holidays, along...
    • Pesach
      Pesach
      ​Pesach, or Passover, is a major holiday in Jewish tradition, and is one of the...
    • Chanuka
      Chanukah
      Unlike most of the major Jewish holidays, Chanukah’s origin is not in the Bible...
    • Rosh Hashanah
      Rosh Hashanah
      Rosh Hashanah, the holiday that marks the beginning of the Jewish year, is in t...
    • Lag Ba-Omer
      Lag Ba-Omer
      ​Lag Ba-Omer is the 33rd day of the counting of the Omer, which starts on the s...
    • Independence Day
      Independence Day
      Independence Day, Israel national holiday, marks Israel’s Declaration of Indepe...
    • Tisha B'Av
      Tisha B’Av
      ​A day of mourning marking the destruction of the First Temple, destroyed in 58...
    • Jerusalem Day
      Jerusalem Day
      ​Jerusalem Day is a national holiday marking the liberation of the city and its...
    • Memorial Day
      Yom Hazikaron
      Yom Hazikaron – Remembrance Day for the Fallen of Israel’s Wars Yom Hazikaron,...
    • Holocaust Remembrance day
      Holocaust Remembrance Day
      Yom Hasho’a, Israel’s Day of Remembrance of the Holocaust and Heroism, is held ...
    • Purim
      Purim
      Purim is one of the happiest and most joyous holidays in Jewish tradition, a ho...
    • Tu B’Shvat
      Tu B’Shvat
      This holiday has its origins not in the Bible, but rather in the Mishna, which ...
    • Sukkot
      Sukkot
      ​Sukkot, or Feast of Booths, is the third holiday in the Hebrew month of Tishre...
    • Yom Kippur
      Yom Kippur
      ​Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is the holiest and most important holiday in...
    • Jewish Holidays
      The Jewish Holidays
      ​The Jewish holidays are celebrated in Israel officially and nationally and vac...
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