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1 Rosh Hashanah - The Jewish New Year

2 Aseret Yemei Teshuva - Ten Days of Repentance

3 Yom Kippur - Day of Atonement

4 Sukkot - Feast of Booths (or Tabernacles)

5 Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah

6 Hanukkah - Festival of Lights

7 Tenth of Tevet

8 Tu Bishvat - New Year of the Trees

9 Purim - Festival of Lots

10 Pesach - Passover

11 Sefirah - Counting of the Omer

12 Lag Ba'omer

13 Shavuot - Feast of Weeks - Yom HaBikurim

14 Seventeenth of Tammuz

15 The Three Weeks and the Nine Days

16 Tisha B'av - Ninth of Av

17 Rosh Chodesh - the New Month

18 Shabbat - The Sabbath - שבת

19 Yom HaShoah - Holocaust Remembrance day

20 Yom Hazikaron - Memorial Day

21 Yom Ha'atzmaut - Israel Independence Day

22 Yom Yerushalaim - Jerusalem Day

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There are four Jewish occasions in the upcoming weeks. Two are festive, while one is solemn and one is both.

1) Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year

2) Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement

3) The Sukkot festival

4) The Shemini Atzeret festival

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Note: This question was posted in mid-September 2017.

There are four Jewish festivals or occasions in the next few weeks. All of them are major Torah-occasions, and two of the four are festive, while one is solemn and one is both.

1) Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year

2) Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement

3) The Sukkot festival

4) The Shemini Atzeret festival

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