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A Partial Listing of Religious, Ethnic and Civic Observances 2017 New ’s (U.S., International) 1 Japanese Shogatsu ( New Year) January 1-3 Dia de los Santos Reyes/Th ree Kings Day ( America) (Christian) January 6 *Asarah B’ (Jewish) January 8 (Hindu) of Dr. King Jr. (U.S.) January 16 ______Imbolc/Imbolg (Pagan, Wiccan) 2 *Tu B’ (Jewish) (Shinto) February 11 Presidents’ Day (U.S.) February 20 International Mother Language Day (International) February 21 (Hindu) Clean / begins (Orthodox Christian) February 27 ______Ash /Lent begins (Christian) 1 Hinamatsuri () March 3 Ta’anit (Jewish) * (Jewish) March 12 (Hindu) *Shushan Purim (Jewish) March 13 St. Patrick’s Day (Christian) March 17 (Iranian New Year) * (Jewish) March 28 ______Mahavir Jayanti (Jainism) Palm (Orthodox Christian) April 9 (Christian) April 9 */Pesach (Jewish) April 11-18 Great Friday (Orthodox Christian) (Christian) April 14 Holy (Orthodox Christian) (Christian) Great and Holy Pascha (Orthodox Christian) April 16 *Lailat al Miraj/Shab-E-Miraj (Islamic) * HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) (Jewish) April 24 ______Beltane (Pagan/Wiccan) May 1 *Yom Ha’atzmaut (Jewish) May 2 (Mexican/Mexican-American) May 5 (Shinto) May 5 Lailat al Bara’a/ Shab-E-Barat (Islamic) May 11 *Lag B’ (Jewish) May 14 *Declaration of the Bab (Bahá’í) May 23 *Yom Yerushalayim (Jewish) *Rosh Chodesh (Jewish) May 26 * (Islamic) May 27 - *Ascension of the Baha’u’llah (Bahá’í) May 28 Day (U.S.) * (Jewish) May 31 - June 1 ______Pentecost (Christian) Summer /Litha/ (Pagan, Wiccan) *Lailat al Kadr (Islamic) June 21 *Quds Day (Islamic) *Rosh Chodesh (Jewish) June 24 *Eid al-Fitr (Islamic) June 25 ______Independence Day (U.S.) *Martyrdom of the Bab (Bahá’í) July 9 *Fast of Asar B’Tammuz (Jewish) *Rosh Chodesh (Jewish) July 24 DIVERSITY ______Lammas (Pagan/Wiccan) 1 is the key to global success *Tisha B’Av (Jewish) Workshops and programs that address (Hindu, Jainism) August 7 *Rosh Chodesh (Jewish) August 22 diversity issues are available for faculty, Ganesh Chaturdhi (Hindu) staff and students. The Diversity Resource *Waqf al Arafa (Islamic) www.purdue.edu/dro Offi ce also administers the DiversiKey ______Program, which prepares students to be *Eid al-Adha (Islamic) September 1 765-494-7307 (U.S.) active and responsible members in their */Jewish New Year September 21 -22 local and global communities. Devi (Hindu) September 21 - 30 / September 22 *Tzom Gedaliah (Jewish) January 2017 February 2017 March 2017

SMTW T F S SMTW T F S SMTW T F S Vijayadashmi (Hindu) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 Dassehra/Dussehra (Hindu) September 30 */Day of Atonement (Jewish) September 30 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ______15 16 17 18 19 20 21 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 * (Islamic) 1 * (Feast of ) (Jewish) October 5-6 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Cirio de Nazare (Brazil) 29 30 31 26 27 28 26 27 28 29 30 31 Karva Chauth (Buddhist, Hindu) October 8 (U.S.) *Hosha’anah Rabah (Jewish) October 11 * Atzeret (Jewish) October 12 April 2017 May2017 June 2017 *Simchat (Jewish) October 13 SMTW T F S SMTW T F S SMTW T F S 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 (Buddhist, Hindu, Sikhism, Jainism) October 19 *Birth of the Bab (Bahá’í) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 *Birth of the Baha’u’llah (Bahá’í) 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Chong Yang () October 28 All Eve/ 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 ______23 24 25 26 27 28 29 28 29 30 31 25 26 27 28 29 30 * (Pagan/Wiccan) 1 30 All ’ Day (Christian) November 1 Dia de los Muertos () (Latin America) November 1 All Souls’ Day (Roman Catholic) November 2 July2017 August 2017 September 2017 Bunka No Hi (Japan) SMTW T F S SMTW T F S SMTW T F S Veterans’ Day (U.S.) 1 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 Shichigosan Matsuri (Shinto) November 15 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Th anksgiving (U.S.) November 23 Day of the Covenant (Bahá’í) November 25 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 ______16 17 18 19 20 21 22 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 * al-Nabi (Islamic) December 1 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 27 28 29 30 31 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Sundays of (Christian) 30 31 Bodhi Day (Buddhist, Hindu) December 8 Feast Day — Our Lady of Guadalupe (Latin America) *Chanukah/ (Jewish) - 20 October 2017 November 2017 December 2017 Las Posadas () December 16 - 24 SMTW T F S SMTW T F S SMTW T F S *Rosh Chodesh Tevet (Jewish) December 18 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 2 3 4 1 2 Solstice/ (Pagan, International) December 21 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 (Christian) December 25 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 (African American) December 26 - January 1

22 23 24 25 26 27 28 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 *Many Islamic and Jewish observances begin at sundown on the evening 29 30 31 26 27 28 29 30 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 preceding the noted . 31 of Religious, Ethnic Occurs on 27 and Civic Observances Beginning at sunset on Tishri 9 and Tishri sunset on Beginning at Began with the passage of Public Law 90-363 in 1968, moving Law Began the passage of Public with The day when the distance between the Tropic of Capricorn of Capricorn Tropic the between when the distance day The A solemn celebration of the beginning of the Jewish year. The The of the beginning of the Jewish year. A solemn celebration Simhat Torah (Tishri 23) literally means “rejoicing in the Torah” Torah” in the “rejoicing means 23) literally (Tishri Torah Simhat The fi rst recorded observance of Thanksgiving in America was in Thanksgiving in America observance of recorded rst fi The The most sacred of the Muslim year, mandated by the Qur’an the Qur’an by mandated of the Muslim year, holiday most sacred The Samhain is the Celtic Feast of the Dead sabbats and is one of the eight Feast Samhain is the Celtic Shavuot, meaning “,” is one of the three pilgrim — along pilgrim festivals is one of the three “weeks,” meaning Shavuot,

Sukkot, also known as the Feast of the Booths or Feast of Tabernacles, Tabernacles, of of the Booths or Feast as the Feast also known Sukkot, Diversity Resource Offi ce Phone: 765-494-7307 Fax: 765-494-0025 in the Pagan calendar. The modern-day Halloween celebration is a descendent of this is a descendent celebration modern-day Halloween The calendar. in the Pagan signaled the end of the harvest nuts (, celebration Celtic The . ancient “the during Samhain, that, believed The and souls) and the beginning of winter. and they can overthrown, and are ancestors, humans, barriers between realms.” visit others’ It falls on the sixth of Sivan, day — in the Jewish calendar. and Sukkot with Passover the Commandments, Ten the and celebrates before, sunset the beginning at because it occurs Weeks of as the Feast also is known Shavout of Jewish law. foundation Passover. of rst day the fi after weeks seven (2:183). It occurs in the ninth of the and is the holy month of the Islamic month in the ninth (2:183). It occurs of . obligation pillar of religious be the third to is considered of fasting. cation charitable acts the Qur’an, the purifi and reading Ramadan is a of worship, Mohammad to revealed was Also the time in which the Qur’an of individual behavior. for the people. as guidance Presidents’ Day: Ramadan: Rosh Hashanah: Samhain: Shavuot: : Sukkot: Thanksgiving: : HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day): Yom of Atonement): Kippur (Day Yom the legal observance of George Washington’s birthday from Feb. 22 birthday Feb. from Washington’s the legal observance of George the third to states 12, many birthday on Feb. came Lincoln’s Since in February. Monday Day. Presidents’ into the two combine calendar and lasts Tishri in the Hebrew of rst day the fi sunset before begins at new year Ten The Rosh Hashanah for one day. Reform usually celebrate However, days. two Kippur Yom and end on of Judgment) on Rosh Hashanah (Day begin of Penitence Days of Atonement). (the Day and represents the culmination of Sukkot and . It is a joyous celebration celebration It is a joyous Atzeret. and Shemini of Sukkot the culmination and represents Torah. of the the annual cycle concludes of the reading that of public thanksgiving “day 26 as a Nov. proclaimed Washington 1619. In 1789, George the fourth to changed the date Roosevelt Franklin 1939, President In and .” in November. in the Kippur is the holiest day Yom 10, Tishri stars appear after three lasting until the since of Atonement observance as the Day also is known The Jewish calendar. transgressions. for one’s Kippur focus on asking and granting Yom of events begin with Rosh that of Penitence Days Ten the end of the Kippur falls at Yom of Judgment. Hashanah, the Day and the is the shortest. Because of the earth’s tilt, the Northern is tilt, Hemisphere and the sun is the shortest. Because of the earth’s other time of year. any the sun than at from leaning farther away Nisan in the . The holiday was established by the Israeli Knesset and the Israeli established by was holiday The calendar. Nisan in the Hebrew the Nazis during the six million Jews killed by is observed as a memorial to worldwide camp at the concentration liberated On 27 Nisan, 1945, Allied Forces . Germany. Buchenwald, begins at sunset the day before the 15th day of Tishri in the Hebrew calendar and in the Hebrew Tishri of the 15th day before sunset the day begins at Sukkot as full holidays. celebrated are days rst two Only the fi days. for seven continues in the desert wandered during the the time that and recalls “booth” means es a also signifi Sukkot in the sukkots. Land and lived the Promised their journey to thanksgiving for the harvest. E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.purdue.edu/dro

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