01/25* Tu B'Shvat (Feast of Trees) 03/23* Fast of Esther (Battle of Purim; 1 day before Purim; fast day) 03/24* Purim (Feast of Lots; 30 days before Pesach) 04/23* Pesach (First Day of Passover; sabbatical) 04/24* Pesach (sabbatical) 04/25* Pesach (sabbatical) 04/26* Pesach (Last Day of Passover; 8th day of Pesach; sabbatical) 05/12* Yom HaAtzma'ut (Israel Independence Day) 05/26* Lag B'Omer (Commemoration of the Great Rebellion) 06/04* Yom Yerushalayim (Reunification of Jerusalem) 06/12* Shavuos (Festival of Weeks; 50 days after Pesach; sabbatical) 07/24* Fast of Shiv'a Asar B'Tammuz (Tzom Tammuz) (Romans breach Wall of Jerusalem; fast day) 08/14* Fast of Tish'a B'Av (Babylon/Rome destroys Holy Temple; fast day) 10/03* First Day of Rosh Hashanah (Jewish Lunar New Year; 5767 == 2006; sabbatical) 10/03* Rosh Hashanah (sabbatical) 10/04* Fast of Gedalya (Murder of Gedalya and subsequent Exile; 1 day after Rosh Hashanah; fast day) 10/12* Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement; 9 days after Rosh Hashanah; sabbatical, fast day) 10/17* Succos (Festival of Tabernacles; 14 days after Rosh Hashanah; sabbatical) 10/23* Hoshanah Rabba (7th day of Succos) 10/24* Shmini Atzeres (8th Day of Gathering; 1 day after Succos; sabbatical) 12/06* First Day of Chanukah 12/22* Fast of Asara B'Tevet (Babylonians put siege on Jerusalem; fast day)