Editing Hebrew calendar (section)

==Usage==
===In Auschwitz===
While imprisoned in [[Auschwitz concentration camp|Auschwitz]], Jews made every effort to preserve Jewish tradition in the camps, despite the monumental dangers in doing so. The Hebrew calendar, which is a tradition with great importance to Jewish practice and rituals was particularly dangerous since no tools of telling of time, such as watches and calendars, were permitted in the camps.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |title=Tracking Jewish time in Auschwitz |first=Alan |last=Rosen |year=2014 |journal=Yad Vashem Studies |volume=42 |issue=2 |page=41 |oclc=1029349665}}</ref> The keeping of a Hebrew calendar was a rarity amongst prisoners and there are only two known surviving calendars that were made in Auschwitz, both of which were made by women.<ref name=":0" /> Before this, the tradition of making a Hebrew calendar was greatly assumed to be the job of a man in Jewish society.<ref name=":0" />

===In contemporary Israel===
{{History of Israel}}
Early [[Zionist]] pioneers were impressed by the fact that the calendar preserved by Jews over many centuries in far-flung diasporas, as a matter of religious ritual, was geared to the climate of their original country: major Jewish holidays such as [[Sukkot]], [[Passover]], and [[Shavuot]] correspond to major points of the country's agricultural year such as planting and harvest. Accordingly, in the early 20th century the Hebrew calendar was re-interpreted as an agricultural rather than religious calendar.

After the creation of the [[State of Israel]], the Hebrew calendar became one of the official calendars of Israel, along with the [[Gregorian calendar]]. Holidays and commemorations not derived from previous Jewish tradition were to be fixed according to the Hebrew calendar date. For example, the Israeli Independence Day falls on 5 [[Iyar]], Jerusalem Reunification Day on 28 Iyar, [[Yom HaAliyah]] on 10 Nisan, and the Holocaust Commemoration Day on 27 [[Nisan]].

The Hebrew calendar is still widely acknowledged, appearing in public venues such as banks (where it is legal for use on cheques and other documents),<ref>[https://www.nevo.co.il/law_html/law01/p220m2_001.htm חוק השימוש בתאריך העברי, תשנ"ח-1998]</ref><ref>[https://www.aish.co.il/i/j/195842211.html צ'ק עם תאריך עברי?!]</ref> and on the mastheads of newspapers.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.israelnationalnews.com/ |title=Arutz Sheva }}; {{cite web |url=https://www.ynet.co.il |title=Yedioth Ahronoth }}; {{cite web |url=https://www.makorrishon.co.il/ |title=Makor Rishon }}; {{cite web |url=https://www.israelhayom.co.il/ |title=Israel HaYom }}; {{cite web |url=https://www.haaretz.co.il/ |title=Haaretz }}; {{cite web |url=https://www.themarker.com/ |title=The Marker }}; {{cite web |url=https://www.maariv.co.il/ |title=Maariv }}</ref>

The Jewish New Year (Rosh Hashanah) is a two-day public holiday in Israel. However, since the 1980s an increasing number of secular Israelis celebrate the Gregorian New Year (usually known as "[[Silvester]] Night"—{{lang|he|ליל סילבסטר}}) on the night between 31 December and 1 January. Prominent rabbis have on several occasions sharply denounced this practice, but with no noticeable effect on the secularist celebrants.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/163462#.Upe6pJuA2rY |title=Rabbinate: New Year's Eve Parties 'Not Kosher' |newspaper=[[Arutz Sheva]] |author=David Lev |date=23 December 2012 |access-date=30 November 2013}}</ref>

Wall calendars commonly used in Israel are hybrids. Most are organised according to Gregorian rather than Jewish months, but begin in September, when the Jewish New Year usually falls, and provide the Jewish date in small characters.