Clean Monday (Orthodox Christian)
Clean Monday, also known as Pure Monday, Ash Monday, Monday of Lent or Green Monday, is the first day of Great Lent throughout Eastern Christianity and is a moveable feast, […]
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Holiday
Ayyám-i-Há (Baháʼí)
Days of preparation for the Fast, marked by hospitality and charity to poor and sick
🕍 Shabbat Zachor (Judaism)
Shabbat of Remembrance. Shabbat before Purim Haftarah: I Samuel 15:2-34 Haftarah for Sephardim: I Samuel 15:1-34 https://hebcal.com/h/shabbat-zachor-2026?uc=ical-diaspora-2026
Holi (H, J, Si)
Holiday associated with exuberant flinging of colored powders, celebrates the advent of spring and the enduring message that good will always be victorious over evil; light will always overcome darkness
Nineteen Day Fast
Sunrise to sunset fast also marked with prayer to reinvigorate soul and bring closer to God (fasting)
🎭️📜 Erev Purim (Judaism)
Celebration of Jewish deliverance as told by Megilat Esther. It commemorates a time when the Jewish people living in Persia were saved from extermination Torah: Esther 1:1-10:3 https://hebcal.com/h/purim-2026?uc=ical-diaspora-2026
✡️ Ta’anit Esther (Judaism)
Fast of Esther Torah: Exodus 32:11-14, 34:1-10 https://hebcal.com/h/taanit-esther-2026?uc=ical-diaspora-2026
🎭️📜 Purim
Celebration of Jewish deliverance as told by Megilat Esther. It commemorates a time when the Jewish people living in Persia were saved from extermination Torah: Exodus 17:8-16; Esther 1:1-10:3 https://hebcal.com/h/purim-2026?uc=ical-diaspora-2026
🎭️📜 Shushan Purim
Purim celebrated in Jerusalem and walled cities https://hebcal.com/h/shushan-purim-2026?uc=ical-diaspora-2026
Lailat al-Qadr (I)
The night when the Quran was first sent down from Heaven to the world and also the night when the first verses of the Quran were revealed to the prophet […]
Ostara (P, W)
Celebrates Spring, also known as the vernal equinox
Eid al-Fitr* (I)
Marks the end of Ramadan, holy month of fasting