✡️ Simchat Torah (Judaism)
Day of Celebrating the Torah. Celebration marking the conclusion of the annual cycle of public Torah readings, and the beginning of a new cycle Torah: Deuteronomy 33:1-34:12; Genesis 1:1-2:3; Numbers […]
Religious Studies
Religious Studies
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Diwali (Hindu, Jain, Sikh)
Festival of Lights. This date is amavasya—when puja is offered to Maha Lakshmi
Birth of the Báb* (Baháʼí)
This Bahá'í holiday celebrates the birth of the Bab, one of the founders of the Bahá'í Faith.
Birth of Bahá’u’lláh* (Baháʼí)
Celebrates the birth of Bahá’u’lláh, the founder of the Bahá’í Faith
Reformation Day (Christian)
Celebration in remembrance of the onset of the Protestant Reformation.
Samhain (Pagan, Wiccan)
Festival honoring endings, beginnings and the dead
Samhain (Pagan, Wiccan)
Begins at sundown on October 31st.
Birth of Guru Nanak (Sikh)
Celebrates the birth of the founder of Sikhism and the first of the Sikh Gurus