Category: New Year Celebrations

Halloween: Spirits, Costumes, Bonfires, Apples and Jack o’ Lanterns

Published October 24, 2006 in American, Autumn, CULTURES, CUSTOMS AND TRADITIONS, Celtic, Costumes, Fire, HOLIDAYS, Lanterns and Lights, New Year Celebrations | Comments [0]
On October 31, Americans celebrate Halloween, which has become an extremely popular holiday. In the evening, children dress in costumes and go trick or treating – walking from house to house, knocking on doors and receiving candies as rewards for their costumes. The costumes range from the stand-by ghosts and witches, to costumes resembling popular [...] Read More »

Yom Kippur

Published October 2, 2006 in Autumn, CULTURES, HOLIDAYS, Jewish, New Year Celebrations | Comments [0]
Yom Kippur is considered to be the holiest of days in the Jewish calendar. It is the 'Day of Atonement,' in which Jews ask for forgiveness for all of their sins against their god, after which the 'Book of Life' is closed for the year. (This is why Yom Kippur is often referred to [...] Read More »

Ramadan

Published September 25, 2006 in Autumn, CULTURES, Fasting, HOLIDAYS, Muslim, New Year Celebrations | Comments [1]
Ramadan is celebrated during the ninth month of the Muslim calendar. Muslims believe that during the month of Ramadan, Allah revealed the first verses of the Qur'an, the holy book of Islam. Around 610 A.D., a caravan trader named Muhammed was walking in the desert near when a voice called to him from the night sky. [...] Read More »

Rosh Hashanah

Published September 23, 2006 in Autumn, CULTURES, HOLIDAYS, Jewish, New Year Celebrations | Comments [0]
Rosh Hashanah is observed the first and second day of the seventh month of the Jewish calender, Tishri. It usually falls in September on the western calendar. Widely known as the New Years Day of the Jewish calendar, Rosh Hashanah actually has a fourfold meaning: 1. The Day of Judgement -- a day on which Jews examine [...] Read More »