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Tu BiShvat (Hebrew for the 15^th day of the Hebrew month of Shvat) is the new year of the trees.

Yom HaShoah is Holocaust Memorial Day.

Lag BaOmer is the 33rd day of the counting of the Omer.

We read the entire Torah over a year, beginning the cycle on the same week as Simchat Torah. The Torah is divided into 54 portions – or parashiyot – and, generally, one portion is read each week on Shabbat.

Tu BiShvat is the “New Year of the Trees.”

Kristallnacht, which literally means, “the night of broken glass,” occurred on the night of November 9, 1938, and marks the beginning of the Holocaust. On Kristallnacht, Jewish homes, synagogues, and businesses were destroyed by the Nazis and the streets in Germany and Nazi-occupied Europe were covered with  glass from the shattered windows of synagogues, Jewish homes, and businesses. 

Tu BiShvat, called the "New Year of the Trees," falls at a seemingly incongruous time of year. 

Tu BiShvat is a minor festival whose provenance dates only to the time of the Second Temple. However, the kabbalists who clustered around the great fifteenth-century mystic Isaac Luria of Safed placed great weight on the holiday, creating new festivities, gatherings at which hymns were sung, fruit (particularly carob) was eaten, and four cups of wine were taken (as in the Passover seder). 

Sukkot, the Jewish festival of booths (a harvest holiday of thanksgiving), begins on the 15^th day of the Hebrew month of Tishrei.