02/11* Tu B'Shvat (Feast of Trees) 03/10* Fast of Esther (Battle of Purim; 1 day before Purim; fast day) 03/11* Purim (Feast of Lots; 30 days before Pesach) 04/10* Pesach (First Day of Passover; sabbatical) 04/11* Pesach (sabbatical) 04/12* Pesach (sabbatical) 04/13* Pesach (Last Day of Passover; 8th day of Pesach; sabbatical) 05/02* Yom HaAtzma'ut (Israel Independence Day) 05/13* Lag B'Omer (Commemoration of the Great Rebellion) 05/24* Yom Yerushalayim (Reunification of Jerusalem) 05/30* Shavuot (Festival of Weeks; 50 days after Pesach; sabbatical) 07/11* Fast of Shiv'a Asar B'Tammuz (Tzom Tammuz) (Romans breach Wall of Jerusalem; fast day) 08/01* Fast of Tish'a B'Av (Babylon/Rome destroys Holy Temple; fast day) 09/21* First Day of Rosh Hashanah (Jewish Lunar New Year; 5778 == 2017; sabbatical) 09/21* Rosh Hashanah (sabbatical) 09/22* Fast of Gedalya (Murder of Gedalya and subsequent Exile; 1 day after Rosh Hashanah; fast day) 09/30* Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement; 9 days after Rosh Hashanah; sabbatical, fast day) 10/05* Succos (Festival of Tabernacles; 14 days after Rosh Hashanah; sabbatical) 10/11* Hoshanah Rabba (7th day of Succos) 10/12* Shmini Atzeres (8th Day of Gathering; 1 day after Succos; sabbatical) 12/12* First Day of Chanukah 12/28* Fast of Asara B'Tevet (Babylonians put siege on Jerusalem; fast day)