The first and last two days of this festival are holy days of rest in which prayer services are held and various works are forbidden. This day commemorates the Holocaust and the six million Jews who perished. We remember six million Jews that suffered, fought, and died. This is a serious day and is commemorated by ceremonies, lighting candles six candles lit by survivors and recitation of special prayers. This day was enacted into Israeli law in While Yom Hazikaron has been traditionally dedicated to fallen soldiers, commemoration has also been extended to civilian victims of terrorism.
This day is the national independence day of Israel. It is observed through joyous festive activities and serving Israeli style foods. It is also common to decorate public and private spaces with Israeli flags and the like. Lag Ba'Omer, the 33rd day of the Omer, is a festive day on the Jewish calendar. It is celebrated with outings, bonfires, parades and other joyous events.
Many visit the resting place of the great sage and mystic Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, the anniversary of whose passing is on this day. The day is officially marked by state ceremonies and memorial services.
Shavuot is a 2-day festival celebrated 7 weeks after the 2nd day of Pesach, commemorating the giving of the Ten Commandments to the Jewish Nation on Mount Sinai. During this festival, dairy meals are eaten and greenery is placed around the house and at synagogue. A customary greeting is shanah tovah or "happy new year! Observant Jews do not eat, drink including water , bathe, engage in sexual activity, or wear anything made of leather on this day of awe.
Learn more about the High Holy Days Sukkot The week-long harvest festival of Sukkot, or "Feast of Tabernacles," commemorates the dwelling of the Israelites in temporary booths sukkot in Hebrew during their year sojourn in the Sinai desert. Many families build their own sukkah in which it is customary to eat meals and sleep, and to shake the lulav , a palm frond bound together with myrtle and willow branches, and the etrog , a kind of citrus pictured here, growing in the Smith College greenhouse, where it is identified as a "Moroccan citrus".
Photo of etrog by Larry Goldbaum. The last portion of the Torah is read on this day. Closest day to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Yom Kippur — Day of Atonement. Most sacred day, spent in the synagogue. Fasting lasts 25 hours. No labor or travel is possible. Avoid scheduling important academic deadlines, events or activities and after a day of fasting. It looks like you're using Internet Explorer 11 or older. This website works best with modern browsers such as the latest versions of Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge.
If you continue with this browser, you may see unexpected results. Holidays and Observances This guide provides information about diverse cultural celebrations and religious holidays. It includes calendars and brief descriptions of the events. This resource can assist in event planning and classroom activities. Jewish Holidays and Observances. This is because a Jewish "day" begins and ends at sunset, rather than at midnight Chanukah Hanukkah — Festival of Lights.
Sephardim enjoy bimuelos , fried doughnuts sprinkled in cinnamon and sugar or coated in honey. Israelis popularized sufganiot, gooey jelly doughnuts, to Hanukkah festivities. The groups include those with pits cherries, apricots, olives, dates, plums , those with outside shells that must be discarded pomegranates, almonds and other nuts and those that are totally edible figs, grapes, apples, pears, berries. Purim Costumes, carnivals, plays, parodies and the consumption of liquor make Purim quite popular!
There is the holiday custom of giving gifts of fruit and sweets, mishloah manot, to friends as well as the mitzvah commandment to do good deeds of donations to the poor.
Passover A springtime holiday, Passover Pesach celebrates the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt with themes of liberation and rebirth that are at the heart of the re-telling of the Biblical story during the ritual holiday meal, the seder. The seder table is full of symbolic foods including charoset , which has nearly as many varieties as there are Jews, with the Eastern European apples-walnut-wine version perhaps most popular in the US.
The many symbolic foods as well as the prohibition on eating hametz leavening — a reminder of the hasty departure from Egypt when the bread dough had no time to rise — make food intrinsic to this holiday perhaps more than any other time. Shavuot Seven weeks after the second night of Passover, Shavuot connects the Israelites rebirth during the exodus to the redemption of receiving the Torah from God at Mt.
Sinai during their wanderings. The day period leading up to the holiday is also the time of the spring growing season and harvest in Israel. Along with staying up all night to study and show our eagerness to learn Torah, the custom is to eat grains, fresh fruit and dairy foods during Shavuot, making it a feast of blintzes and cheesecake.
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