Jewish Calendar

Year	Purim¹	1st day Passover²	1st day Shavuot³	1st day Rosh Hashanah⁴	Yom Kippur⁵	1st day Sukkot⁶	Simchat Torah⁷	1st day Hanukkah⁸
2001	March 9	April 8	May 28	Sept. 18	Sept. 27	Oct. 2	Oct. 10	Dec. 10
2002	Feb. 26	March 28	May 17	Sept. 7	Sept. 16	Sept. 21	Sept. 29	Nov. 30
2003	March 18	April 17	June 6	Sept. 27	Oct. 6	Oct. 11	Oct. 19	Dec. 20
2004	March 7	April 6	May 26	Sept. 16	Sept. 25	Sept. 30	Oct. 8	Dec. 8
2005	March 25	April 24	June 13	Oct. 4	Oct. 13	Oct. 18	Oct. 26	Dec. 25

1. Feast of Lots.

2. Feast of Unleavened Bread.

3. Hebrew Pentecost; or Feast of Weeks, or of Harvest, or of First Fruits.

4. Jewish New Year.

5. Day of Atonement.

6. Feast of Tabernacles, or of the Ingathering.

7. Rejoicing of the Law. In Israel, Simchat Torah is celebrated on the day before the date given.

8. Festival of Lights.

Length of Jewish holidays (O=Orthodox, C=Conservative, R=Reform):

Passover: O & C, 8 days (holy days: first 2 and last 2); R, 7 days (holy days: first and last).

Shavuot: O & C, 2 days; R, 1 day.

Rosh Hashanah: O & C, 2 days; R, 1 day.

Yom Kippur: All groups, 1 day.

Sukkot: All groups, 7 days (holy days: O & C, first 2; R, first only); O & C observe 2 additional days: Shemini Atseret (Eighth Day of the Feast) and Simchat Torah; R observes Shemini Atseret but not Simchat Torah.

Hanukkah: All groups, 8 days.

NOTE: All holidays begin at sundown on the evening before the date given.

Jewish Holidays, 2001–2005