Rosh Hashana The Jewish New Year festival. Rosh Hashanah is also a judgement day, when Jews believe that God balances a person's good deeds over the last year against their bad deeds, and decides what the next year will be like for them.
Chanukah The Jewish festival of rededication, also known as the Festival of Lights. Sometimes spelled Hanukkah, Chanukkah, Hanukah, or Hannukah.
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Purim
Purim is one of the most joyous and fun holidays on the Jewish calendar. It commemorates a time when the Jewish people living in Persia were saved from extermination.
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Pesach Passover, the Feast of Unleavened Bread. Also called Chag HaMatzot (the Festival of Matzah), it commemorates the Exodus and freedom of the Israelites from ancient Egypt.
