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Over this last year, I’ve made some pretty big decisions in my life: medical school timeline, job prospects, my role in my communities, and much more. Yet through this, I’ve been given some constant reminders …

  Lunar New Year denotes the start of the lunisolar calendar, and falls on January 29th this year. Lunar New Year is celebrated in many Asian and Asian diasporic cultures including Vietnamese (Tết Nguyên Đán), …

Guru Nanak Gurpurab, also called Guru Nanak Jayanti, falls on November 15th this year and celebrates the anniversary of the birth of Guru Nanak, the first Guru (teacher) of Sikhism. This Gurpurab, meaning Guru’s birthday, …

Diwali or Dipavali, also known as the festival of lights, is celebrated on October 28th to November 2nd. Diwali is one of the most important holidays in Hinduism, and overlaps with celebrations in the Sikh, …

Rosh Hashanah, meaning ‘head of the year’ in Hebrew, is the celebration of the Jewish New Year. The first of the High Holy Days, Rosh Hashanah begins at sundown on Wednesday, October 2, and is …

Passover or Pesach in Hebrew, is a Jewish holiday commemorating the Biblical story of Exodus that begins this year at sundown on Saturday, April 12 and ends Sunday, April 20. Jews around the world mark …