Muharram

The first month of the Islamic calendar. It is one of the four sacred months of the year when warfare is forbidden. It is held to be the second holiest […]

Ashura

An Islamic holiday that occurs on the tenth day of Muharram, the first month in the Islamic lunar calendar. For Muslims, Ashura marks the day in which the Islamic prophet […]

Shabbat Mevarchim Chodesh Av

Molad Av: Thu, 32 minutes and 4 chalakim after 19:00 The fifth month of the Hebrew year and corresponds to July or August on the Gregorian calendar. The name comes […]

Civic Holiday (Canada)

A public holiday in Canada celebrated on the first Monday in August. Though the first Monday of August is celebrated in most of Canada as a public holiday, it is […]

Tisha B’Av

An annual fast day in Judaism, on which a number of disasters in Jewish history occurred, primarily the destruction of both Solomon's Temple by the Neo-Babylonian Empire and the Second […]