jewish holiday, n.All

A Jewish holiday (n.) begins at sundown, which makes the evening before already part of it.

A Jewish holiday (n.) lands on a date that requires checking, because the wall calendar rarely agrees.

A Jewish holiday (n.) is a day the calendar takes from the moon rather than from the office.

A Jewish holiday (n.) asks a household to stop the ordinary week and put something deliberate in its place.

A Jewish holiday (n.) works the way a bookmark does, holding a place in a story still being read.