Michigan Jewish Conference

2001-2002            2002-2003               2003 - 2004

Rosh Hashanah                 Sept. 18 - 19              Sept. 7 - 8                  Sept. 27 - 28 

Jewish New Year

 Yom Kippur                        Sept. 27                     Sept. 16                   Oct. 6

Day of Atonement

 Sukkot                               Oct. 2 - 3                    Sept 21 - 22              Oct. 11 - 12

Feast of Tabernacles

 Shemini Atzeret                Oct. 9 - 10                  Sept. 28 - 29              Oct. 18 - 19

Harvest Assembly &

Simchat Torah                   

Rejoicing of the Law

 Hanukkah                          Dec. 10 - 17               Nov. 30 - Dec. 7          Dec. 20 - 27

Festival of Lights

 Purim                                Feb. 26                       March 18                   March 7

Feast of Lots

 Passover                           March 28-29                April 17 - 18                April 6 - 7

Festival of Freedom

 Passover                           April 3 - 4                   April 23 - 24                 April 12 - 13

Concluding Days

 Shavout                            May 17 - 18                June 6 - 7                    May 26 - 27

Feast of Weeks

Additional One-Day Jewish Holidays

Tu B'Shevat (Arbor Day) - Day celebrating new fruits and the planting of trees in the State of Israel.

Tisha B'Av - Anniversary of the destruction of both the first and second temples in Jerusalem and other Jewish tragedies.  Climax of a two-week period of mouring.  Day of fasting.

Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Memorial) - Memorializes the martyrdom of the six million Jews who perished in the Nazi Holocaust.

Yom Ha'atzma'ut - A day of celebration in honor of Israel's independence in May of 1948.

The Jewish Sabbath begins at sunset every Friday and ends just after sunset on Saturday.

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