High Holidays

plural noun

1. Judaism the festivals of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, the period of repentance in the first ten days of the Jewish new year Also calledDays of AweYamim Nora'im

Example Sentences

Needless to say, scheduling major events on the Jewish High Holidays does nothing to assuage those concerns.

From The Daily Beast

How do Jewish cultures around the world celebrate high holidays with different food traditions?

From The Daily Beast

Children are taught Hebrew at an early age, and celebrating the High Holidays is encouraged by the Islamic regime.

From The Daily Beast

And some were evidently old: probably thirty years old: still perfect and in keeping, reserved for Sunday and high holidays.

From Project Gutenberg

The sisterhood, abstemious nearly all the days of the year, feasted on certain high holidays.

From Project Gutenberg

Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival does not limit the custom to high holidays, ed.

From Project Gutenberg