In 2010, Hanukkah will begin on the evening of 1st December.Although many people think Hanukkah is the ‘Jewish Christmas’, in fact it is a holiday that commemorates an altogether different event namely the victory of the Maccabees over the Syrian-Greek rulers of Jerusalem in 164BC.At this time, the temple was rededicated, and God miraculously made a single day’s worth of oil burn for eight whole days.

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Yom Kippur is probably the most reverential and solemn festival in the Jewish calendar and is a time when Jews are given the chance to change God’s judgement of one’s deeds.Litereally speaking, Yom Kippur is the Day of Attonement, so it’s at this time when Jews can atone for their sins.This will set the fate of the following year, and is a day of reflection and contemplation.

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