01/26* Tu B'Shvat (Feast of Trees) 02/22* Fast of Esther (Battle of Purim; 1 day before Purim; fast day) 02/23* Purim (Feast of Lots; 30 days before Pesach) 03/25* Pesach (First Day of Passover; sabbatical) 03/26* Pesach (sabbatical) 03/27* Pesach (sabbatical) 03/28* Pesach (Last Day of Passover; 8th day of Pesach; sabbatical) 04/16* Yom HaAtzma'ut (Israel Independence Day) 05/12* Lag B'Omer (Commemoration of the Great Rebellion) 05/22* Yom Yerushalayim (Reunification of Jerusalem) 05/29* Shavuos (Festival of Weeks; 50 days after Pesach; sabbatical) 07/09* Fast of Shiv'a Asar B'Tammuz (Tzom Tammuz) (Romans breach Wall of Jerusalem; fast day) 07/30* Fast of Tish'a B'Av (Babylon/Rome destroys Holy Temple; fast day) 09/19* First Day of Rosh Hashanah (Jewish Lunar New Year; 5767 == 2006; sabbatical) 09/04* Rosh Hashanah (sabbatical) 09/05* Fast of Gedalya (Murder of Gedalya and subsequent Exile; 1 day after Rosh Hashanah; fast day) 09/13* Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement; 9 days after Rosh Hashanah; sabbatical, fast day) 09/28* Succos (Festival of Tabernacles; 14 days after Rosh Hashanah; sabbatical) 10/04* Hoshanah Rabba (7th day of Succos) 10/15* Shmini Atzeres (8th Day of Gathering; 1 day after Succos; sabbatical) 12/12* First Day of Chanukah 12/27* Fast of Asara B'Tevet (Babylonians put siege on Jerusalem; fast day)