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The Hebrew calendar ( Hebrew: הַלּוּחַ הָעִבְרִי, romanized : HalLûaḥ HāʿIḇrî ), 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 ...
All Jewish holidays begin at sunset on the evening before the date shown. On holidays marked "*", Jews are not permitted to work. Because the Hebrew calendar no longer relies on observation but is now governed by precise mathematical rules, it is possible to provide, for the future, the Gregorian calendar date on which a holiday will fall.
Purim ( / ˈpʊərɪm /; פּוּרִים Pūrīm ⓘ, lit. ' lots '; see Name below) is a Jewish holiday that commemorates the saving of the Jewish people from annihilation at the hands of an official of the Achaemenid Empire named Haman, as it is recounted in the Book of Esther (usually dated to the 5th century BCE).
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.
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 ...
Yom Ha'atzmaut ( Hebrew: יוֹם הָעַצְמָאוּת, Arabic: عيد الاستقلال, romanized : ʿīd al-istiqlāli, lit. 'Day of Independence') is Israel's national day, commemorating the Israeli Declaration of Independence on 14 May 1948. It is marked by a variety of official and unofficial ceremonies and observances.
Nisan (or Nissan; Hebrew: נִיסָן, romanized : Nīsān from Akkadian: 𒁈, romanized: Nissāni) in the Babylonian and Hebrew calendars is the month of the barley ripening and first month of spring. The name of the month is an Akkadian language borrowing, although it ultimately originates in Sumerian nisag "first fruits".
The date is set in accordance with the Hebrew calendar, on 27 Nisan, so that it varies in regard to the Gregorian calendar. Observance of the day is moved back to the Thursday before, if 27 Nisan falls on a Friday (as in 2021), or forward a day, if 27 Nisan falls on a Sunday (to avoid adjacency with the Jewish Sabbath, as in 2024).