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Mother’s Day 2024

Mother’s Day is a holiday observed in many ways around the world to celebrate the efforts of mothers and mother figures everywhere, giving family a particularly special opportunity to show how much they care. In the United States, it falls annually on the second Sunday in May.It is popularly observed … »
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Cinco de Mayo 2024

Cinco de Mayo honors the anniversary of a pivotal battle of the Second Franco-Mexican War: the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862. During this battle, Mexican forces successfully held back a French army twice their number and prevented them from reaching Mexico City, and so the victory remains a … »
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Passover 2024

Passover is a major Jewish holiday, also known as Pesach, from the Hebrew for “pass over” (meaning “to skip” or “to leave out”). Because it is determined by the lunar calendar, the week-long celebration takes place on different dates of the more commonly used solar calendar every year, beginning and … »
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Eid al-Fitr 2024

With the end of Ramadan comes Eid al-Fitr, which this year begins the evening of Tuesday, April 9 and continues for three days of celebration and prayer. (Both holidays are determined by the lunar calendar, so they take place on a different date on the commonly used solar calendar every … »
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