Jewish Festival Calendar

Jewish Festival Calendar 2024: Print Religious Holidays of Jewish

Jewish Festival Calendar 2024: The Jews or Jewish people represent an ethno religious group, whose ethnicity, nationality and religion are closely interlinked. The traditional faith of the Jewish nation is Judaism. There are 13.2 million Jews worldwide, according to the Jewish agency for Israel. While 5.4 million Jews are based in their homeland Israel, a thumping 5.3 million Jews are situated in the U.S. and their remaining population is distributed around the world in different sizes of communities.

Jewish Festival Calendar 2024: Printable

According to the Hebrew Bible, The Land of Israel is the promised homeland to Jews by God. Festive holidays are an integral part of the Jewish life, just as in the case of any other community across the world. Festive rituals and traditions have kept the Jewish identity and history alive since ages. They contribute to their sense of community and belonging, apart from serving as reminders of significant historic events.

Most of the Jewish festivals can trace their roots and origin to important religious happenings, which contributed to their evolvements as a religious community. These festivals are related to religious events dating back to historic times. The most important Jewish festivals are the Sabbath – when Jews are forbidden to work and the three pilgrimage festivals – Passover, Shavuot and Sukkot. Of the three, Passover signifies the freedom of Jews from their enslavement by Egyptians, while Shavuot commemorates the anniversary of the day God gave the Torah to Moses and the Israelite at Mount Sinai. Sukkot is one of the three biblical pilgrims’ festivals, when it was traditional for Jews to visit the Temple in Jerusalem. The other main festivals of the Jews are the two holy days – Rosh Hashanah, commonly referred to as the Jewish New Year; and Yom Kippur, also known as the Day of Atonement. Hanukkah is another major Jewish festival, which extends over a week, like Passover.

Jewish Festival Calendar 2024
DAY DATE HOLIDAY
Thursday January 25, 2024 Tu Bishvat
Sunday March 24, 2024 Purim
Monday March 25, 2024 Shushan Purim
Thursday April 18, 2024 Yom Hashoah
Monday April 22, 2024 Passover – First Day
Tuesday April 30, 2024 Passover – Final Day
Monday May 13, 2024 Yom HaZikaron
Tuesday May 14, 2024 Yom HaAtzma’ut
Wednesday May 22, 2024 Second Passover
Sunday May 26, 2024 Lag BaOmer
Wednesday June 05, 2024 Yom Yerushalayim
Tuesday June 11, 2024 Shavuot (1st day)
Thursday June 13, 2024 Shavuot
Tuesday July 23, 2024 The 17th of Tammuz
Tuesday August 13, 2024 Tish’a B’Av
Wednesday October 02, 2024 Rosh HaShana Starts
Friday October 04, 2024 Rosh HaShana Ends
Sunday October 06, 2024 Fast of Gedaliah
Saturday October 12, 2024 Yom Kippur
Wednesday October 16, 2024 Sukkot Starts
Wednesday October 23, 2024 Sukkot Ends
Thursday October 24, 2024 Shmini Atzeret
Friday October 25, 2024 Simchat Torah
Wednesday December 25, 2024 Hanukkah Starts

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