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Faculty (including coaches) receive annual reminders of this policy and are encouraged to work carefully with students in anticipating and resolving conflicts to their mutual satisfaction.
The list that follows is not exhaustive; it includes major festivals and holy days for many, though by no means all, religious traditions represented and celebrated in the Ramapo community. (If it does not include an important date in the religious calendar of your particular tradition, please let us know.) Every effort has been made to ensure that this information is accurate. Note that some holidays in some traditions are tied to the lunar calendar or to particular cultural patterns that vary by region or by sect which make their location in the calendar somewhat more fluid.
Islamic Holidays: Regional customs or moon sightings may cause a variation of the date for Islamic holidays, which begin at sundown the day before the date specified for the holiday. The Islamic calendar is lunar and the days begin at sunset, so there may be one-day error depending on when the New Moon is first seen.
For holidays associated with Christianity, the following notations are used to denote observance by particular strands of the Christian tradition: RC-Roman Catholic P-Protestant O-Orthodox
Dates marked with a double asterisk (**) denote occasions on which the precept of a particular tradition and the practice of nearly all its adherents, includes significant restrictions on academic activity.
2020 |
Days |
Holidays |
Religion |
Aug. 11 – Aug. 12 | Sundown – Tuesday Sundown – Wednesday |
**Sri Krishna Jayanti (date can vary by day) | Hinduism |
Sep. 18 – Sep. 20 | Sundown – Friday Sundown – Sunday |
**Rosh Hashanah (first 2 days) | Judaism |
Sep. 20 – Sep. 21 | Sunday – Monday | Paryushana-Parva | Jainism |
Sep. 27 – Sep. 28 | Sundown Sunday
Sundown Monda |
** Yom Kippur | Judaism |
Oct. 2 – Oct. 4 | Sundown – Friday Sundown – Sunday |
**Sukkot (1st 2 days) | Judaism |
Oct. 9 – Oct. 11 | Sundown – Friday
Sundown – Sunday |
**Shemini Atzeret
**Simchat Torah |
Judaism |
Oct. 17 – Oct. 26 | Sundown – Sat
Sundown – Mon |
Navaratri | Hinduism |
Oct. 18 – Oct. 19 | Sundown-Sunday
Sundown-Monday |
**Birth of the Báb | Bahá’í |
Oct. 28 – Oct 29 | Sundown – Wed
Sundown – Thurs |
Mawlid al Nabi (dates can vary by day)
|
Islam |
Nov. 6
Nov. 7 |
Sundown – Friday Sundown – Saturday |
**Birth of Bahá’u’lláh | Bahá’í |
Nov. 14 |
Saturday |
Diwali (Deepavli) |
Jainism SikhismHinduism |
Dec. 10 Dec. 18
|
Sundown – Thurs
Sundown – Fri |
Hanukkah/Chanukah
|
Judaism |
Dec. 24
Dec. 25
|
Thursday
Friday |
Christmas | Christianity
(RC, P, O) |
Dec. 26
Jan. 1 |
Saturday Friday |
**Kwanzaa | African American |
2021 |
Days |
Holidays |
Religion |
Jan. 7 | Thursday | Feast of the Nativity (Christmas) | Orthodox Christian |
Feb. 12 | Friday | **Chinese New Year | Confucian, Daoist, Buddhis |
Feb. 17 | Wednesday | Ash Wed, Lent begins | Christianity (RC, P) |
Feb. 25
Feb 26 |
Sundown Thurs
Sundown Fri |
Purim | Judaism |
Mar. 1 – Mar. 19 | Monday
Friday |
**`Ala’’ (Loftiness) | Bahá’í |
Mar. 15
May 1 |
Monday
Saturday |
Great Lent begins/Clean Mon | Orthodox Christian |
Mar. 19
Mar. 20 |
Sundown-Friday
Sundown-Saturday |
Naw-Ru’z | Bahá’í |
Mar. 27-29
April 2-4 |
Sundown-Saturday
Sundown-Sunday |
**Pesach/Passover (first two and last
two days) |
Judaism |
Mar. 28 –
Mar. 29 |
Sundown – Sunday Sundown – Monday |
Holi – Festival of Colors (date may vary) | Hinduism |
Mar. 28 | Sunday | Palm Sunday | Christianity (RC, P) |
April 2 | Friday | Good Friday | Christianity (RC, P) |
April 4 | Sunday | Easter | Christianity (RC, P) |
Apr. 6 | Tuesday | Mahavira-Jayanti | Jainism Sikhism, Hinduism |
Apr. 8
Apr. 9 |
Sundown Thursday
Sundown Friday |
Yom HaSho’ah | Judaism |
Apr 12
May 11 |
Sundown-Monday
Sundown-Tuesday |
**Ramadan begins | Islam |
Apr. 28
Apr. 29 |
Sundown – Wednesday Sundown – Thursday |
Ridván (9th day) | Bahá’í
|
Apr. 30 | Friday | Holy Friday | Orthodox Christian |
May 1
May 2 |
Sundown – Saturday Sundown – Sunday |
Ridván (12th day) | Bahá’í |
May 2 | Sunday | Easter/Pascha | Orthodox Christian |
May 12
May 13 |
Sundown – Wednesday
Sundown – Thursday |
Eid al-Fitr | Islam |
May 16
May 17 |
Sundown-Sunday
Sundown-Monday |
**Shavuot
|
Judaism |
May 22
May 23 |
Sundown – Saturday Sundown – Sunday |
Declaration of the Báb | Bahá’í |
May 28
May 29 |
Sundown – Friday Sundown – Saturday |
Ascension of Baha’u’ll”áh | Bahá’ |
July 17
July 18 |
Sundown –Satuday Sundown – Sunday |
**Tisha B’ Av | Judaism |
July 19
July 20 |
Sundown – Monday Sundown -Tuesday |
Eid al-Adha | Islam |
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