Chabad offers a wide array of programs, events and services for every Holiday on the Jewish Calendar. With activities such as baking matzah for Passover, creating masks for Purim, and making shofars for Rosh Hashanah, Chabad can make learning about Jewish holidays and ritual objects fun and rewarding for everyone.
Hoilday events will be posted closer to each event. Check back before each holiday
If the year is a train, the High Holidays (AKA High Holy Days) are its engine. A delicate blend of joy and solemnity, feasting and fasting, prayer and inspiration make up the spiritually charged head of the Jewish year.
Chanukah commemorates the rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem after a small group of Jewish warriors defeated the occupying Greek armies.
Purim celebrates the deliverance of the Jewish people from the wicked Haman in the days of Queen Esther of Persia.
Passover is celebrated by Jews every year, commemorating the anniversary of our miraculous Exodus from Egyptian slavery, as told in the Bible.
Sukkot—when we expose ourselves to the elements in greenery-covered huts—commemorates G‑d sheltering our ancestors as they traveled from Egypt to the Promised Land.
Yom Kippur is the holiest day of the year—the day on which we are closest to G‑d and to the quintessence of our own souls.
Lag B'omer is a festive day celebrating the anniversary of the passing of the great sage and mystic Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, author of the Zohar. It also commemorates the end of a plague that raged amongst the disciples of the great sage Rabbi Akiva. On Lag Ba’Omer the dying ceased.
Shavoutis a two-day holiday that commemorates the date when G‑d gave the Torah to the Jewish people at Mount Sinai over 3,000 years ago. Preceded by 49 days of counting in eager anticipation.