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Religious Studies

Hanukkah (Judaism)

Also transliterated Chanukah and several others. Festival of Lights commemorating the rededication of the Second Holy Temple in Jerusalem at the time of the Maccabean Revolt. Begins at sundown on […]

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Yule (Pagan, Wiccan)

Winter solstice in the northern hemisphere, a time to meditate on the cycle of life, death, and rebirth.

Oshogatsu (Shinto)

Celebration of New Year, commemorated by going to shrine, thanking the kami (spirits), asking for good fortune and letting resolutions known in presence of kami.

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