Chanukah Eid al-Fitr Passover & Easter  Starts on the 25th day in  Ramadan ends with the the Jewish calendar and Eid al-Fitr festival. It is  Passover starts usually lasts for 8 days and the festival of breaking in March or April. nights. Usually right fast. Passover begins at before Christmas. sundown the preceding day.  For the eight days of Passover, Jews observing the holiday Chinese New abstain from eating any Ramadan Year foods containing leavening components,  Muslims believe that this such as bread, cake, and  The longest and most month is when their donuts. As a substitute, important celebration on god, Allah, first revealed Jews eat unleavened the Chinese calendar. the first verses of the bread called matzo.  On the 15th day, they Qur’an. So Muslims fast  Easter (Western celebrate with a lantern during the entire month. Churches) can be festival. They are not allowed to anywhere from March  Many Chinese eat or drink anything 22 to April 25th while the sun shines. Americans partake in this holiday. Rosh Yom Kippur Kwanza Hashanah  Occurring in October,  December 26th – January Yom Kippur is also 1st  Jewish New Year known as the Day of  On December 31st celebrated in September. Atonement. African Americans  It is a time for personal  Yom Kippur is celebrate “karamu” introspect and prayer, considered the holiest which is the great feast. rather than a big party. day of the Jewish year, Lent in which people atone for the sins of the past year.  Is the 40 day period (6  It is solemnly observed weeks) between Ash with ceremonial Wednesday and Easter repentance, strict fasting Sunday in observance of and refraining from the 40 days Jesus spent work for a twenty-four fasting. hour period that begins  Generally is observed by at sundown. abstinence from certain foods, intensified public prayer, self-examination and self-improvement.