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jewish holiday calendar

The Hebrew calendar is a lunar-based calendar, meaning a day begins and ends at sundown. Thus, all holidays begin at sundown of the day preceding the date shown and end at sundown of the (last) day shown.

Since the Hebrew calendar begins with Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish year always straddles two years from the gregorian calendar. In other words, spring holidays (such as Pesach and Shavuot) occur in the civil year following Rosh Hashanah. For example: Rosh Hashanah in the Hebrew year 5758 occurs on September 21-22, 1997 and Passover in the same Hebrew year occurs on April 1-2,1998.

An additional note: Since the calendar was created in Israel and there is a great time zone difference between Israel and America, American Jews observe some holidays for two days, while Israeli Jews observe only one day, to ensure that American Jews celebrate the holiday during the entire time that the holiday is observed in Israel.

Civil Year 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10
Hebrew Year 5767 5768 5769 5770
Rosh Hashana Sat - Sun Sep. 23-24 Thurs - Fri Sep. 13-14 Tue - Wed Sep. 30- Oct. 1 Sat - Sun Sep. 19-20
Fast of Gedalia --- --- --- ---
Yom Kippur Mon, Oct. 2 Sat, Sep. 22 Thurs, Oct. 9 Mon, Sep. 28
Sukkot Sat - Fri, Oct. 7-13 Thurs - Wed, Sep. 27 -Oct. 3 Tues - Mon, Oct. 14-20 Sat - Fri, Oct 3-9
Chol Hamoed and Hoshana Rabba --- --- --- ---
Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah Sat, Oct. 14 Thurs, Oct. 4 Tues, Oct. 21 Sat, Oct. 10
Hannukah Sat - Sat, Dec. 16-23 Wed - Wed, Dec. 5-12 Mon - Mon, Dec. 22-29 Sat - Sat, Dec. 12-19
Asarah B'Tevet --- --- --- ---
Tu B'Shvat Sat, Feb. 3 Tues, Jan. 22 Mon, Feb. 9 Sat, Jan. 30
Ta'anit Esther --- --- --- ---
Purim Sun, Mar. 4 Fri, Mar. 21 Tues, Mar. 10 Sun, Feb. 28
Ta'anit Bichorot --- --- --- ---
Pesach Tue - Mon, Apr. 3-9 Sun - Sat, Apr. 20-26 Thu - Wed, Apr. 9-15 Tue - Mon, Mar 30- Apr 5
Shavuot Wed, May 23 Mon, Jun. 9 Fri, May 29 Wed, May 19

This page was originally created by John Davis and Michael Kay, and can be found at http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/jdd16/guide/.



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