Day of forgiveness, do you celebrate it in your country?

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Hello friends, i live in Bulgaria and here we celebrate day of forgiveness. It's a family celebration, when the young people ask these, who are older than them, to give them forgiveness. It's not only between family members, but also friends or people who are close to them. On that celebration day people has own traditions, one of them is to eat something, which here we call "halva". Usually people buy it from the stores, but it's something mixed from flour, sesame oil, little honey and tahini. In the day of forgiveness people eat mostly the white one, which has different recipe, but i'm not sure what is mixed. The consistence of the "halva" is hard as a stone. When i was a child, we always put one piece of "halva" on a string and little kids had to take it with their mouths when the pice is flying in the air with that string. We were not allowed to use hands to catch the piece It was so funny. Kind of Thanksgiving but in it's bulgarian way. Now i want to ask, do you have a day for forgiveness in your country, how do you celebrate it and would you share what else emotional holidays you celebrate, except Thanksgiving with the turkey and Christmas?