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View the 2025-2026 Year in Israel Calendar: 2025-26 Year in Israel Academic Calendar & Important Dates.docx

View future calendars: 2024-2030 Planning Calendar of Academic & Other Important Dates (Excel, filterable)

Summer 2025
May 26, 2025Memorial Day: HUC closed, no classes
June 2-3, 2025Shavuot: HUC closed, no classes
June 4, 2025Summer term starts
June 4, 2025VP Rabbinical classes begin
June 6-12, 2025Executive MA Summer Institute
June 8-12, 2025Zschool Leadership Conference
June 11, 2025Graduation application deadline
June 15, 2025DeLeT Spring fieldwork ends
June 19, 2025Juneteenth: HUC closed, no classes
June 23, 2025Zschool Summer classes begin
June 23, 2025DeLeT Summer classes begin
June 23, 2025Course add/drop deadline
July 4, 2025Independence Day: HUC closed, no classes
July 18, 2025DeLeT Summer classes end/Culmination Ceremony
July 31, 2025VP Rabbinical classes end
July 31, 2025Most US Summer classes end
August 3, 2025Tish'a B'Av
August 6, 2025Zschool Summer classes end
August 7, 2025Zschool/MSOLI Graduation/Culmination Ceremony
August 14, 2025Grades due: 12 pm ET, 9 am PT
August 14, 2025Summer term ends
August 15, 2025All Summer credentials conferred

Fall 2025
August 18, 2025Fall term starts
August 18, 2025EMA Fall classes begin
August 18-21, 2025August Intensives
August 18-22, 2025Fall Orientation
TBDOrientation and High Holy Days preparation for second-year students
August 19, 2025DeLeT Fall classes begin
August 20, 2025MAT Fall classes begin
August 22, 2025Deadline to submit Grading Scale Change Request form
August 25, 2025Most Fall classes begin
August 25-27, 2025New York Kallah (NY Rabbinical & Cantorial)
August 28, 2025NY Rabbinical & Cantorial Fall classes begin
September 1, 2025Labor Day: HUC closed, no classes
September 3, 2025Graduation application deadline
September 8, 2025NY Classes Cancelled for Ellenson Conference
September 12, 2025Course add/drop deadline
September 13, 2025Official enrollment census date
September 20-October 8, 2025High Holy Days recess: no classes
September 22, 2025Rosh Hashanah erev: HUC closed after 1 pm
September 23-24, 2025Rosh Hashanah break: HUC closed
October 1, 2025Yom Kippur erev: HUC closed after 1 pm
October 2, 2025Yom Kippur break: HUC closed
October 6, 2025Sukkot erev: HUC closed after 1 pm; no classes all day
October 7-8, 2025Sukkot break: HUC closed, no classes
October 13, 2025Simchat Torah/Shemini Atzeret erev: HUC closed after 1 pm; no classes all day
October 14-15, 2025Simchat Torah/Shemini Atzeret break: HUC closed, no classes
November 17, 2025Registration opens for Spring
November 27-28, 2025Thanksgiving Break: HUC closed, no classes
December 15, 2025Most Fall classes end
December 15, 2025Grades for unresolved Incompletes from prior terms are due
December 16-17, 2025Reading Days
December 17, 2025MAT Fall classes end
December 18, 2025DeLeT Fall classes end
December 18-19, 2025Final presentations & exams
December 19, 2025EMA Fall classes end
December 22, 2025Fall term ends
December 24, 2025Christmas Eve: HUC closed after 1pm
December 25, 2025Christmas Day: HUC closed
January 1, 2026New Year's Day: HUC closed
January 5, 2026Fall grades due: 12 pm ET, 9 am PT
January 6, 2026Fall credentials conferred
TBDZschool Windmueller Israel seminar

Spring 2026
January 11 2026Spring term starts
January 11-15, 2026January Intensives
January 13, 2026DeLeT Spring classes begin
January 14, 2026MAT Spring classes begin
January 19, 2026MLK Jr. holiday: HUC closed, no classes
January 20, 2026Most Spring classes begin
January 28, 2026Graduation application deadline
February 6, 2026Course add/drop deadline
February 7, 2026Official enrollment census date
February 16 2026Presidents Day: HUC closed; no classes
April 13, 2026Registration opens for Summer and Fall
April 1-12, 2026Passover break: no HUC classes
April 1, 2026Passover 1st night: HUC closed
April 2, 2026Passover 1st day: HUC closed
April 3, 2026Passover 2nd day: HUC closed
April 7, 2026Passover 7th night: HUC closed after 1 pm
April 8, 2026Passover 7th day: HUC closed
April 9, 2026Passover 8th day: HUC closed
April 10, 2026Final grades due for all ordination candidates
April 24, 2026Final grades due for HUC-USC double-degree candidates
April 30, 2026Most Spring classes end
April 30, 2026Grades for unresolved Incompletes from prior terms are due
May 3, 2026Ordination (New York)
May 4, 2026Graduation (New York)
May 4, 2026EMA Spring classes end
May 4-6, 2026Reading Days
May 6, 2026MAT Spring classes end/Colloquium
May 7-8, 2026Final presentations & exams
May 8 2026Graduation (Cincinnati)
May 9 2026Ordination (Cincinnati)
May 14, 2026DeLeT Spring classes end
May 15, 2026Spring term ends
May 17, 2026Ordination (Los Angeles)
May 18, 2026Graduation (Los Angeles)
May 21, 2026Shavuot erev: HUC closed after 1 pm; no classes all day
May 22, 2026Shavuot: HUC closed, no classes
May 25, 2026Memorial Day: HUC closed, no classes
May 29, 2026Spring grades due: 12 pm ET, 9 am PT
June 1, 2026Spring credentials conferred
June 15, 2026DeLeT Spring fieldwork ends