01/21* Tu B'Shvat (Feast of Trees) 03/19* Fast of Esther (Battle of Purim; 1 day before Purim; fast day) 03/20* Purim (Feast of Lots; 30 days before Pesach) 04/19* Pesach (First Day of Passover; sabbatical) 04/20* Pesach (sabbatical) 04/21* Pesach (sabbatical) 04/26* Pesach (Last Day of Passover; 8th day of Pesach; sabbatical) 05/09* Yom HaAtzma'ut (Israel Independence Day) 05/23* Lag B'Omer (Commemoration of the Great Rebellion) 06/01* Yom Yerushalayim (Reunification of Jerusalem) 06/08* Shavuot (Festival of Weeks; 50 days after Pesach; sabbatical) 07/20* Fast of Shiv'a Asar B'Tammuz (Tzom Tammuz) (Romans breach Wall of Jerusalem; fast day) 07/21* Fast of Tish'a B'Av (Babylon/Rome destroys Holy Temple; fast day) 09/09* First Day of Rosh Hashanah (Jewish Lunar New Year; 5778 == 2017; sabbatical) 09/09* Rosh Hashanah (sabbatical) 09/10* Fast of Gedalya (Murder of Gedalya and subsequent Exile; 1 day after Rosh Hashanah; fast day) 09/18* Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement; 9 days after Rosh Hashanah; sabbatical, fast day) 09/23* Succos (Festival of Tabernacles; 14 days after Rosh Hashanah; sabbatical) 09/30* Hoshanah Rabba (7th day of Succos) 10/01* Shmini Atzeres (8th Day of Gathering; 1 day after Succos; sabbatical) 12/02* First Day of Chanukah 12/18* Fast of Asara B'Tevet (Babylonians put siege on Jerusalem; fast day)