High Holidays

British  

plural noun

1. Also called: Days of Awe.   Yamim Nora'im.  Judaism the festivals of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, the period of repentance in the first ten days of the Jewish new year

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Example Sentences

These ideas swirl around Maddie, whose family eats kosher and observes the high holidays, and who rebels against her culture’s expectations of her as a wife and mother.

From Los Angeles Times

There were moments of fusion at home as well, with celebrations of the High Holidays sometimes merging with Ramadan.

From Seattle Times

Granted, the holiest of high holidays in all of American sportsballs never starves for attention.

From Salon

He says that he has a rabbi, not a priest, speaks admiringly about Moses during interviews, and has blasted the sounds of the shofar, the ram’s horn blown on Jewish High Holidays, before thousands at campaign rallies.

From Los Angeles Times

Sunday should have been the start of the working week and the return to school in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon, with the end of the Jewish high holidays.

From BBC