This page displays the Diaspora holiday schedule.The Israel schedule is used by Jews living in modern Israel.
Major holidays 2023✡️
Purim
Celebration of Jewish deliverance as told by Megilat Esther. It commemorates a time when the Jewish people living in Persia were saved from extermination.🎭️📜
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14 Adar 5783
Pesach
Passover, the Feast of Unleavened Bread. Also called Chag HaMatzot (the Festival of Matzah), it commemorates the Exodus and freedom of the Israelites from ancient Egypt.🫓🍷
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15-22 Nisan 5783
Shavuot
Festival of Weeks. Commemorates the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai.⛰️🌸
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6-7 Sivan 5783
Tish’a B’Av✡️
The Ninth of Av. Fast commemorating the destruction of the two Temples.
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9 Av 5783
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Rosh Hashana
The Jewish New Year. Also spelled Rosh Hashanah.🍏🍯
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1-2 Tishrei 5784
Yom Kippur
Day of Atonement. The holiest day of the year in Judaism, traditionally observed with a 25-hour period of fasting and intensive prayer.✡️
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10 Tishrei 5784
Sukkot
Feast of Booths. Also called the Feast of Tabernacles, the seven-day holiday is one of the Three Pilgrimage Festivals (Hebrew: שלוש רגלים, shalosh regalim).🌿🍋
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15-21 Tishrei 5784
Shmini Atzeret✡️
Eighth Day of Assembly. Immediately following Sukkot, it is observed as a separate holiday in the Diaspora and is combined with Simchat Torah in Israel.
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22 Tishrei 5784
Simchat Torah
Day of Celebrating the Torah. Celebration marking the conclusion of the annual cycle of public Torah readings, and the beginning of a new cycle.✡️
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23 Tishrei 5784
Chanukah
Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of rededication. Also known as the Festival of Lights, the eight-day festival is observed by lighting the candles of a hanukkiah (menorah).🕎
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25 Kislev - 3 Tevet 5784
Minor holidays 2023✡️
Tu BiShvat
New Year for Trees. Tu BiShvat is one of four “New Years” mentioned in the Mishnah.🌳
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15 Sh’vat 5783
Shushan Purim🎭️📜
Purim celebrated in Jerusalem and walled cities
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15 Adar 5783
Days of the Omer㊾
7 weeks from the second night of Pesach to the day before Shavuot. Also called Sefirat HaOmer, it is a practice that consists of a verbal counting of each of the forty-nine days between the two holidays
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16 Nisan - 5 Sivan 5783
Pesach Sheni✡️
Second Passover, one month after Passover
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14 Iyyar 5783
Lag BaOmer🔥
33rd day of counting the Omer. The holiday is a temporary break from the semi-mourning period the counting of the Omer.
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18 Iyyar 5783
Tu B’Av❤️
Minor Jewish holiday of love. Observed on the 15th day of the Hebrew month of Av.
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15 Av 5783
Rosh Hashana LaBehemot🐑
New Year for Tithing Animals
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1 Elul 5783
Leil Selichot🕍
Prayers for forgiveness in preparation for the High Holidays
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23 Elul 5783
Chag HaBanot✡️
North African Chanukah festival of daughters. Called Eid al-Banat in Arabic, the holiday was most preserved in Tunisia.
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1 Tevet 5784
Minor fasts 2023
Minor fasts begin at dawn and end at nightfall.
Asara B’Tevet
Fast commemorating the siege of Jerusalem
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10 Tevet 5783
Ta’anit Esther
Fast of Esther
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13 Adar 5783
Ta’anit Bechorot
Fast of the First Born
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14 Nisan 5783
Tzom Tammuz
Fast commemorating breaching of the walls of Jerusalem before the destruction of the Second Temple
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17 Tamuz 5783
Tzom Gedaliah
Fast of the Seventh Month. Commemorates the assassination of the Jewish governor of Judah.
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3 Tishrei 5784
Asara B’Tevet
Fast commemorating the siege of Jerusalem
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10 Tevet 5784
Modern holidays 2023🇮🇱
Modern Israeli holidays are national holidays officially recognized by theKnesset, Israel's parliament.
Hebrew Language Day🇮🇱
Promotes the Hebrew language in Israel and around the world. Occurs on the birthday of Eliezer Ben Yehuda, the father of modern spoken Hebrew.
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19 Tevet 5783
Family Day🇮🇱
Yom HaMishpacha, a day to honor the family unit
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30 Sh’vat 5783
Yom HaAliyah🇮🇱
Recognizes Aliyah, immigration to the Jewish State of Israel
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10 Nisan 5783
Yom HaShoah✡️
Holocaust Memorial Day
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27 Nisan 5783
Yom HaZikaron🇮🇱
Israeli Memorial Day. Remembers those who died in the War of Independence and other wars in Israel.
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4 Iyyar 5783
Yom HaAtzma’ut🇮🇱
Israeli Independence Day. Commemorates the declaration of independence of Israel in 1948.
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5 Iyyar 5783
Herzl Day🇮🇱
Commemorates the life and vision of Zionist leader Theodor Herzl
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10 Iyyar 5783
Yom Yerushalayim🇮🇱
Jerusalem Day. Commemorates the re-unification of Jerusalem in 1967.
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28 Iyyar 5783
Jabotinsky Day🇮🇱
Commemorates the life and vision of Zionist leader Ze'ev Jabotinsky
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29 Tamuz 5783
Yom HaAliyah School Observance🇮🇱
Aliyah Day observed in Israeli schools
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7 Cheshvan 5784
Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Day🇮🇱
Commemorates the life of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin
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11 Cheshvan 5784
Sigd✡️
Ethiopian Jewish holiday occurring 50 days after Yom Kippur
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29 Cheshvan 5784
Ben-Gurion Day🇮🇱
Commemorates the life and vision of Israel's first Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion
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6 Kislev 5784
Special Shabbatot 2023🕍
Shabbat Shirah
Shabbat of Song. Shabbat that includes Parashat Beshalach.
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13 Sh’vat 5783
Shabbat Shekalim
Shabbat before Rosh Chodesh Adar. Read in preparation for Purim.
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27 Sh’vat 5783
Shabbat Zachor
Shabbat of Remembrance. Shabbat before Purim.
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11 Adar 5783
Shabbat Parah
Shabbat of the Red Heifer. Shabbat before Shabbat HaChodesh, in preparation for Passover.
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18 Adar 5783
Shabbat HaChodesh
Shabbat before Rosh Chodesh Nissan. Read in preparation for Passover.
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25 Adar 5783
Shabbat HaGadol
Shabbat before Pesach (The Great Shabbat)
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10 Nisan 5783
Shabbat Chazon
Shabbat of Prophecy/Shabbat of Vision. Shabbat before Tish'a B'Av.
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4 Av 5783
Shabbat Nachamu
Shabbat after Tish'a B'Av (Shabbat of Consolation). The first of seven Shabbatot leading up to Rosh Hashanah.
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11 Av 5783
Shabbat Shuva
Shabbat of Returning. Shabbat that occurs during the Ten Days of Repentance between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.
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8 Tishrei 5784
Rosh Chodesh 2023🌒
רֹאשׁ חוֹדֶשׁ, transliterated Rosh Chodesh or Rosh Hodesh, is a minor holiday that occurs at the beginning of every month in the Hebrew calendar. It is marked by the birth of a new moon.
Note: the first day of Tishrei is notconsidered Rosh Chodesh. The holiday that occurs on the 1st day of Tishreiis called Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year.For the month of Tishrei, the major holiday of Rosh Hashana takesprecedence over what would be a minor holiday.
Rosh Chodesh Sh’vat
Start of month of Sh'vat on the Hebrew calendar. שְׁבָט (transliterated Sh'vat or Shevat) is the 11th month of the Hebrew year, has 30 days, and corresponds to January or February on the Gregorian calendar.
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1 Sh’vat 5783
Rosh Chodesh Adar
Start of month of Adar on the Hebrew calendar. Adar (אַדָר) is the 12th month of the Hebrew year, has 29 days, and corresponds to February or March on the Gregorian calendar.
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30 Sh’vat - 1 Adar 5783
Rosh Chodesh Nisan
Start of month of Nisan on the Hebrew calendar. נִיסָן (transliterated Nisan or Nissan) is the 1st month of the Hebrew year, has 30 days, and corresponds to March or April on the Gregorian calendar.
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1 Nisan 5783
Rosh Chodesh Iyyar
Start of month of Iyyar on the Hebrew calendar. אִיָיר (transliterated Iyyar or Iyar) is the 2nd month of the Hebrew year, has 29 days, and corresponds to April or May on the Gregorian calendar.
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30 Nisan - 1 Iyyar 5783
Rosh Chodesh Sivan
Start of month of Sivan on the Hebrew calendar. Sivan (סִיוָן) is the 3rd month of the Hebrew year, has 30 days, and corresponds to May or June on the Gregorian calendar.
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1 Sivan 5783
Rosh Chodesh Tamuz
Start of month of Tamuz on the Hebrew calendar. תַּמּוּז (transliterated Tamuz or Tammuz) is the 4th month of the Hebrew year, has 29 days, and corresponds to June or July on the Gregorian calendar.
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30 Sivan - 1 Tamuz 5783
Rosh Chodesh Av
Start of month of Av on the Hebrew calendar. Av (אָב) is the 5th month of the Hebrew year, has 30 days, and corresponds to July or August on the Gregorian calendar.
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1 Av 5783
Rosh Chodesh Elul
Start of month of Elul on the Hebrew calendar. Elul (אֱלוּל) is the 6th month of the Hebrew year, has 29 days, and corresponds to August or September on the Gregorian calendar.
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30 Av - 1 Elul 5783
Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan
Start of month of Cheshvan on the Hebrew calendar. חֶשְׁוָן (transliterated Cheshvan or Heshvan) is the 8th month of the Hebrew year, has 29 or 30 days, and corresponds to October or November on the Gregorian calendar.
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30 Tishrei - 1 Cheshvan 5784
Rosh Chodesh Kislev
Start of month of Kislev on the Hebrew calendar. Kislev (כִּסְלֵו) is the 9th month of the Hebrew year, has 30 or 29 days, and corresponds to November or December on the Gregorian calendar.
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1 Kislev 5784
Rosh Chodesh Tevet
Start of month of Tevet on the Hebrew calendar. Tevet (טֵבֵת) is the 10th month of the Hebrew year, has 29 days, and corresponds to December or January on the Gregorian calendar.
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1 Tevet 5784