For calendrical details, candle lighting times, and Torah readings of the week see Hebcal.
Learn the traditional Jewish holiday greetings
The Jewish Holidays – a description of each
Articles about Jewish holidays
Elul (the penitential month) and Selihot (pre Rosh Hashanah readings)
Selihot (סליחות) recited before Rosh Hashanah
Rosh Hashanah (Sept/Oct)
How to prepare for the High Holy Days
Rosh Hashanah 101 – My Jewish Learning
High Holiday Torah and Haftarah Cantillation
Yom Kippur (Sept/Oct)
Yom Kippur Quick Guide – Rabbi Haim Ovadia
Sukkot – an overview and introduction
Sukkot outreach at restaurants and pubs
Hosha’nah Rabbah (The seventh day of Sukkot)
Shmini Atzeret and Simchat Torah (late Sept/Oct)
Simchat Torah and Sh’mini Atzeret
Hanukkah (late Nov/Dec)
Hanukkah: All about the holiday
Hanukkah is about countering antisemitism: Be aware of Hanukkah Erasure
Hanukkah in classical art and music
Hanukkah 2021 Merrimack Valley & Boston
Halakhah of Hanukkah
The laws of Hanukkah, A Guide to Religious Practice, Isaac Klein, JTS, Conservative Judaism
Practical Guide to the Laws of Ḥanukka according to the Geonic/ Maimonidean Tradition
Tu B’shevat (Shevat 15)
Tu B’shevat, the Jewish New Year for Trees
Purim (Feb/Mar)
The Original Source and Halakhic Status of the Custom of wearing Costumes on Purim
Passover (Mar/Apr)
Passover: An overview and introduction
Sane ways to shop for Passover
Inch thick soft matzah can be kosher!
Kosher for Passover Corn Whiskey
Passover Haggadah page correlation chart
Pour Out Your Wrath: The legitimacy of anger at injustice
Sefirat Ha’Omer (The counting of the Omer)
Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Memorial Day) (Apr/May)
Yom HaShoah / יום השואה – Hebcal
Yom Hazikaron, Israeli Memorial Day (Apr/May)
Yom HaZikaron / יום הזכרון – Hebcal
Yom HaZikaron and Yom HaAtzma’ut – The new Jewish holidays
Yom Ha’atzmaut (Israeli Independence Day) (Apr/May)
Yom HaAtzma’ut / יום העצמאות – Hebcal
Lag B’Omer – 33rd day of the Omer (Apr/May)
Lag BaOmer / ל״ג בעומר – Hebcal
Lag Ba’Omer – The Kabbalistic holiday and the Zionist holiday
Lag Ba-Omer – A baseless holiday? Yehudah B. Ilan
The Truth About Lag B’Omer by Devir Kahan
A Printing Mistake and the Mysterious Origins of Rashbi’s Yahrzeit by Eliezer Brodt
Yom Yerushalayim (Jerusalem Day) (May/Jun)
Respecting Jewish holy places in Israel
Shavuot (May/Jun)
The Custom (Minhag) of Eating Dairy on Shavuot
The Three Weeks and Nine Days
(Not a holiday, but a special period of time leading up to Tisha B’Av)
Kinot: readings and liturgy for Tisha B’Av
The Real Laws of the Three Weeks and Nine Days by Rabbi Josh Yuter
A Brief Guide to the Three Weeks and the Nine Days HaRav by Rabbi David Bar-Hayim
Tisha B’Av (Jul/Aug)
Tisha B’Av 101 – A short intro
Kinot (קינות) are elegies and dirges recited on Tisha B’Av.
Secular Jews need to reclaim Tisha B’Av
Misusing Tisha B’Av as politics of self-satisfaction
Shabbat
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