The Calendar
What the atlas records for this date, across the traditions it covers.
Already Underway
Feast / celebration
The fifty days from Easter Sunday to Pentecost, kept as a single festal season
Day 3 of 50
Feast / celebration
15-21 Nisan; 15-22 Nisan in the Diaspora
Day 6 of 7
Seven days in the Land of Israel and among Reform communities. Eight in much of the Diaspora.
This Week In Science History
Dates for the Hebrew and Islamic calendars are the tabular reckoning, which is what a printed calendar prints. Communities that begin a month on a sighted crescent may differ by a day, and differ from one another by place.