{"id":14274,"date":"2026-05-26T21:23:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T01:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/?p=14274"},"modified":"2026-05-26T21:23:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T01:23:20","slug":"heritage-months-days-of-significance-53","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/heritage-months-days-of-significance-53\/","title":{"rendered":"Heritage Months &#038; Days of Significance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The TDSB is proud to recognize important days of significance throughout the school year, including a number of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tdsb.on.ca\/Community\/Heritage-and-History-Months\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">heritage and history months<\/a>.\u00a0TDSB Committees, made up of community members and staff, are in place for many of these to plan activities that celebrate the month and our diverse TDSB community.<\/p>\n<p>Days of Significance:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>May 21\u201323rd: Shavuot<\/strong>\u2014A\u00a0Jewish celebration of the receiving of the Torah<\/li>\n<li><strong>May 24th: Victoria Day<\/strong>\u2014Queen Victoria\u2019s birthday on May 24<sup>th<\/sup>, 1819<\/li>\n<li><strong>May 24th: Pentecost<\/strong>\u2014A\u00a0Christian celebration of the descent of the holy spirit<\/li>\n<li><strong>May 24th: Buddha&#8217;s Birthday<\/strong>\u2014Celebrated either in April or on May 24<sup>th<\/sup><\/li>\n<li><strong>May 27\u201330th: Eid al-Adha<\/strong>\u2014An Islamic holiday commemorating the Prophet Ibrahim\u2019s willingness to sacrifice his son<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>May is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tdsb.on.ca\/home\/ctl\/Details\/mid\/43823\/itemId\/632\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Asian Heritage Month<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tdsb.on.ca\/home\/ctl\/Details\/mid\/43823\/itemId\/633\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jewish Heritage Month<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tdsb.on.ca\/home\/ctl\/Details\/mid\/43823\/itemid\/637\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mental Health Awareness Month<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The TDSB is proud to recognize important days of significance throughout the school year, including a number of\u00a0heritage and history months.\u00a0TDSB Committees, made up of community members and staff, are in place for many of these to plan activities that celebrate the month and our diverse TDSB community. Days of Significance: May 21\u201323rd: Shavuot\u2014A\u00a0Jewish celebration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tdsb-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14275,"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14274\/revisions\/14275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}