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Name of holiday
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Significance
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Observance
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Rosh Hashanah
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New Year – welcoming the new Jewish year
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School closed
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Yom Kippur
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Day of Atonement – a solemn holiday of repentance
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School closed – wear white day before
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Sukkot
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Festival of Harvest
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Eight days. First and last two days are chag days with school closed
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Shemini Atzeret
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Eighth Day of Sukkot, prayers for rain
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School closed
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Simchat Torah
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End and beginning of Torah reading cycle
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School closed
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Chanukah
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Festival of Lights – celebrates the miracle of victory over the Greeks and the rededication of the temple.
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Eight days. Celebrated in school unless it falls during Winter Break.
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Tu B’Shvat
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Arbor Day (nature)
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Celebrated in school
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Purim
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Celebrates survival of Persian Jews
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Celebrated in school
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Pesach
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Passover; recalls our deliverance from slavery to freedom
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School closed
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Yom Hashoah
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Holocaust Remembrance Day
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Observed in school
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Yom Hazikaron
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Memorial for those who gave their lives for survival of Israel
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Observed in school
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Yom Haatzmaut
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Israeli Independence Day
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Celebrated in school
Wear blue and white
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Shavuot
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Celebrates receiving of the Torah
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School closed - wear white day before
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