| SHABBAT The Sabbath, every week from Friday evening to Saturday evening: one of the holiest days in the calendar | |
| ROSH HASHANAH The Jewish New Year: start of the Ten Days of Penitence | Saturday, September 11, 1999 Sunday, September 12, 1999 |
| FAST OF GEDALIAH | Monday, September 13, 1999 |
| YOM KIPPUR Day of Atonement: a very solemn day of the year, devoted to fasting, prayer, and repentance | Monday, September 20, 1999 |
| SUKKOT The seven day holiday commemorates the dwelling of the Israelites in booths during their travels in the desert. The first two days are observed as a holiday. | Saturday, September 25, 1999 Sunday, September 26, 1999 |
| Hoshanah Rabbah Seventh day of Sukkot | Friday, October 1, 1999 |
| SHEMINI ATZERET Eighth day of Assembly and SIMCHAT TORAH Rejoicing of the Law | Saturday, October 2, 1999 Sunday, October 3, 1999 |
| HANUKAH Festival of Lights: the chanukkiah is lit for eight nights to commemorate the miracles of the Maccabees' victory and the rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem. | Saturday, December 4, 1999 Saturday, December 11, 1999 |
| FAST OF TEVET marks the siege of Jerusalem in the year 586 BCE | Sunday, December 19, 1999 |
| TU BISHVAT Jewish Arbor Day | Saturday, January 22, 2000 |
| PURIM KATAN Observed to duplicate in Adar I of a leap year those precepts observed in Adar | Sunday, February 20, 2000 Monday, February 21, 2000 |
| FAST OF ESTHER marks Queen Esther's fast before she risked her life to save the Jews. | Monday, March 20, 2000 |
| PURIM Celebrates defeat of Haman's plot to destroy the Jews of Persia | Tuesday, March 21, 2000 |
| PESACH Passover: the eight day holiday celebrating the deliverance of the Jewish people from Egypt. The seder service on the first two evenings recounts the story of the Exodus. The last two days are also observed as full holy days. | Thursday, April 20, 2000 Friday, April 21, 2000 Wednesday, April 26, 2000 Thursday, April 27, 2000 |
| YOM HASHOAH Holocaust remembrance day. | Tuesday, May 2, 2000 |
| YOM HAZIKARON Israel memorial day for soldiers who fell in Israel's wars. | Tuesday, May 9, 2000 |
| YOM HA'ATZMAUT Israel Independence day: celebrates the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948. | Wednesday, May 10, 2000 |
| LAG B'OMER 33rd day of the counting of Omer—the time between Pesach and Shavuot | Tuesday, May 23, 2000 |
| YOM YERUSHALAYIM celebrates the reunification of Jerusalem in 1967. | Friday, June 2, 2000 |
| SHAVUOT Feast of Weeks: marks the giving of the Law(Torah) at Mt. Sinai | Friday, June 9, 2000 Saturday, June 10, 2000 |
| FAST of the 17th of TAMMUZ marks the day the walls of Jerusalem were breached before its eventual destruction. | Thursday, July 20, 2000 |
| FAST of the 9th of AV mourns the destruction of the 1st and 2nd Temple in Jerusalem. | Thursday, August 10, 2000 |
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