The Calendar
What the atlas records for this date, across the traditions it covers.
Observed On This Date
Feast / celebration
15-21 Nisan; 15-22 Nisan in the Diaspora
Day 1 of 7
Seven days in the Land of Israel and among Reform communities. Eight in much of the Diaspora.
Already Underway
Feast / celebration
The fifty days from Easter Sunday to Pentecost, kept as a single festal season
Day 26 of 50
This Week In Space and Astronomy History
Dates for the Hebrew and Islamic calendars are the tabular reckoning, which is what a printed calendar prints. Communities that begin a month on a sighted crescent may differ by a day, and differ from one another by place.