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We offer here various links relating to Jewish Holidays. We hope that you will find these useful and a vehicle to "Celebrate the Jew in You". Even if you consider yourself non-Jewish, celebrating Jewish Holidays, particularly as you are a descendant of Jews, is not only acceptable according to Torah, but highly desirable. Enjoy! :

http://www.aish.com/holidays (Aish.com - "The Jewish Website")

http://www.ou.org/holidays (Orthodox Union website)

http://urj.org/holidays/jcal (Union for Reform Judaism website)

Our favorite Holiday links..., to www.BirthrightIsrael.com :

High Holy Days (Rosh Ha Shannah and Yom Kippur) : 1-2 Tishrei
Sept 9-10, 2010
Yom Kippur: 10 Tishrei
Sept 18, 2010
Time to reflect and
look ahead to a new year.
As the High Holy Days approach we encourage our visitors to reflect and repair, to seek forgiveness and make amends with God and neighbor, to make charity and care for the poor a priority in our lives. With this in mind, we provide a link to sites focusing on repair and charity: http://www.ziv.org (Zedaka fund)





Sukkot : 16-22 Tishrei
Sep 23rd, Oct 1st, 2010
We are people of the desert so it is fitting
that we commemorate the forty years of
wandering through the desert to Israel.





Hanukah: 25 Kislev - 5 Tevet
Dec 2-9, 2010
The Maccabees defeat the Greeks and a
great miracle happens.





Tu B'Shvat : 15 Shvat
Jan 20, 2011





Purim: 13-15 Adar
March 20-21, 2011





Passover : 15-22 Nissan
April 19-26, 2011
Why is this holiday different from all
others? Matzah, singing, multiple cups
of wine and ... matzah!
Celebrate Passover this year!! Whether Jew or Gentile, it shall be for a blessing! If you have never celebrated Passover or are not sure how to conduct the seder ("the passover order"), don't worry! Download one of our simplified Passover Haggadahs (a Haggadah is a script or "telling" which takes you step by step thru the Passover celebration). Click on one these:
Passover Seder Guide from Birthright Israel.
Passover Seder Guide from United Jewish Communities (www.ujc.org).




Independence Day/Yom Ha'atzmaut: 5 Iyar
May 10th, 2011
Israel Independence Day marks
the day when David Ben Gurion and a
handful of Jewish leaders declared the
Independent State of Israel.
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Shavuot: 6-7 Sivan
June 8-9th, 2011
Moses brings the Ten Commandments
to the Jewish People at Mount Sinai after
Exodus from Egypt.





Tisha B'Av : 9 Av
July 20th, 2010
Both the First and
Second Temples destroyed on the same
day...not to mention when Jews got
expelled from Spain in 1492 CE, and when they were locked into the Warsaw Ghetto in WW II.