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See below for a sample of dates to observe, reflect, celebrate or promote throughout the university community. The full calendar is available on the website,

June 5
Yom Yerushalayim (JU)
Jerusalem Day commemorates the reunification of Jerusalem in 1967. This day begins on the twenty-eighth day of the month of Iyyar in the Hebrew calendar.

June 6
Ramadan (IS)
Ramadan, the ninth month of the Islamic Hijri calendar and the most spiritually-beneficial month of the Islamic year, is considered the most venerated and blessed. Prayers, fasting, charity, and self-accountability are especially stressed at this time. It is the month in which Mohammed, the prophet of Islam, received the first verse of the Q鈥檜ran. The fourth pillar of Islam, which is fasting, is practiced during the month of Ramadan.

June 11
Shavuot (JU)
Shavuot, also spelled Shavuos Ashkenazi 鈥淔east of Weeks,鈥� is a Jewish holiday that occurs on the sixth day of the Hebrew month of Sivan (corresponding to late May/early June). It marks the conclusion of the Counting of the Omer and the day the Torah was given at Mount Sinai. At Passover, the Jewish people were freed from being slaves to Pharaoh; at Shavuot they accepted the Torah and became a nation committed to serving God.聽