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The anons above me have some great advice regarding holidays/the calendar (and remember that since we use a lunar calendar days are counted sundown to sundown,) so I'll add some slightly different advice regarding devoutness/which holidays/etc.

I don't know if the character you want to play is an OC or a canon character, but either way it's important to first look into their cultural background. Because of our diasporas and just generally how long jewish people have been around, we have a ridiculous amount of different subcultures, subethnicities, levels of devoutness (one subculture's devout doesn't match another's) and all that. If you're playing a canon character it's probably safe to guess they're Ashkenazi if there's nothing to indicate otherwise, but if it's an OC you have a ton of options.

Once you've figured out which subethnicity/subculture the character is, then you get to pick within that for religious observance. To use Ashkenazim as an example, there's hasidic, orthodox, conservative, reform, and probably a bunch of others I don't remember because I'm not particularly religious myself. Each of those subgroups has different levels of observance to be considered devout, from how strict kosher rules are to which holidays to observe carefully to what's okay and not okay on the sabbath. This is also true for the different subcultures; for example Sephardi and Ashkenazi populations have different opinions on what's okay to eat during passover.

I could probably give you more specific advice on figuring out holidays and such if I know a little more about the background of the character you're interested in, but honestly you can likely get away with a lot in rp due to the fact that in a lot of games time is all wonky, supplies are limited, etc etc, and so things like holidays would be less important than maintaining the impact the character's culture and faith has in their general lives.

Feel free to ask anything else and I'll try and help though! Also if you have a sock or something, I can definitely PM you if you don't want to talk on anon/are concerned details on the character would make it obvious who you are here.