Festivals

יוֹם כִּפּוּר Saturday 4 October 2014 The Day of Atonement   Click here for details of services.

סוכות‎ Thursday 9 October First day of the the Feast of Tabernacles

שְׁמִינִי עֲצֶֽרֶת שִׂמְחַת תּוֹרָה Thursday 16th October Eighth Day of Assembly / Rejoicing of Torah  

חֲנֻכָּה   Festival of Lights

טו בשבט Wednesday 4th February New Year for the Trees

פּוּרִים The story of Purim is told in the Book of Esther, whose eponymous heroine plays the leading role in saving her people. The holiday is traditionally celebrated with wild […]

פֶּסַח Pesach Originally a combination of a couple of different spring festivals, it is a commemoration of the Exodus from Egypt--especially the night when God "passed over" the houses of […]

יום השואה Thursday 16th April The full name of the day commemorating the victims of the Holocaust is "Yom Hashoah Ve-Hagevurah"--literally the "Day of (Remembrance of) the Holocaust and the Heroism." It […]

יום העצמאות Yom HaZikaron/Yom HaAtzma'ut: The fourth of Iyar, the day preceding Israel's Independence Day, was declared by the Israeli Knesset (Parliament) to be a Memorial Day for those who lost their lives […]