Jewish Holidays during the Academic Year at Bard

Jewish Year 5786 (2025–26)

For specific timing on Jewish services and celebrations at Bard, please contact Rabbi Joshua Boettiger at [email protected].

Major Jewish Holidays 5786

(While School Is in Session)

Rosh Hashanah*
Jewish New Year
Evening of September 22 through September 24, 2025

Yom Kippur*
Day of Atonement
Evening of October 1 (Kol Nidrei) till sundown on October 2, 2025

Sukkot*
Festival of Tabernacles
Evening of October 6 through October 14, 2025

Shemini Atzeret/Simchat Torah*
Festival of Rejoicing with the Torah
Evening of October 13 through October 15, 2025

Hanukkah
Festival of Lights
Evening of December 14 through December 21, 2025

Tu BiShvat
New Year of the Trees
February 2, 2026

Purim
Carnivalesque holiday celebrating survival
Evening of March 2 through March 3

Pesach*
Passover, feast of freedom
Evening of April 1 (first seder) through April 9

Shavuot*
Revelation of the Torah
Evening of May 21 through sundown of May 22

Holidays marked with * (Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, first two days of Sukkot, Shemini Atzeret, Simchat Torah, and first two days and last day of Pesach) are days when work is traditionally forbidden and observant students’ schedules will be affected.