Pesah: Feasting for Freedom -- The Omer: Countdown to Sinai -- Yom Ha-Shoah: Day of Remembrance of the Holocaust -- Yom Ha-Atzma'ut: Israeli Independence Day -- Yom Yerushalayim: Jerusalem Day -- Shavuot: Revealing the Torah -- The Three Weeks: The Dark Time -- Rosh Ha-Shanah: Returning Anew -- Yom Kippur: Day of At-One-Ment -- Sukkot: Creating Shelter -- Shemini Atzeret/Simhat Torah: Reveling With the Torah -- Hanukkah: Increasing the Light -- Tu Bishvat: Tasting of the Tree -- Purim: Self-Mockery and Masquerade.
Understanding the Jewish Calendar -- Halakhah of the Holidays -- Torah Reading Chart -- The Common Hebrew Blessings -- Glossary of Hebrew Terms -- Dates of the Holidays: 5746-5760 (1985-2000).
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