Examples of Jewish festivals you may see during the year
If you use a Jewish holiday calendar throughout the year, the most common festival names you will see include:
- Passover (Pesach), which Chabad describes as commemorating the deliverance of the Jewish people from slavery in Egypt.
- Shavuot, one of the major annual festivals listed in Jewish holiday calendars.
- Rosh Hashanah, which Hebcal describes as the Jewish New Year and the first of the High Holidays.
- Yom Kippur, which appears in standard annual holiday calendars as one of the most important observances of the Jewish year.
- Sukkot and Hanukkah, both commonly listed as major Jewish holidays in yearly calendars.
- Purim, which Chabad describes as celebrating the deliverance of the Jewish people from Haman in Persia.
