Chag HaBanot 2807 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 6568

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 6568 begins at sundown on and ends at nightfall on .

Rosh Chodesh l’banot (ראש חודש לבנות‎ also known as Chag habanot חג הבנות‎ [Girls’ Day]), and in Arabic as Eid al-Banat, is a holiday, celebrated by some of the Jewish communities in the Middle East on Rosh Chodesh of the Jewish month of Tevet, during the Jewish holiday of Chanukah. The Jewish community where the holiday was most preserved is in Tunisia. But there is also evidence that it was also celebrated in Jewish communities in Libya, Algeria, Kushta, Morocco and Thessaloniki.

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Dates for Chag HaBanot

HolidayStartsEndsHebrew Date
Chag HaBanot 2804 30 Kislev 6564
Chag HaBanot 2804 1 Tevet 6565
Chag HaBanot 2805 30 Kislev 6566
Chag HaBanot 2806 30 Kislev 6567
Chag HaBanot 2807 30 Kislev 6568
Chag HaBanot 2808 1 Tevet 6569
Chag HaBanot 2809 30 Kislev 6570
Chag HaBanot 2810 30 Kislev 6571
Chag HaBanot 2811 1 Tevet 6572

References

The Jewish Holidays: A Guide & Commentary (paid link)
Rabbi Michael Strassfeld
“Girls Day (Judaism)” in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia
Wikimedia Foundation Inc.
Books (paid links)

The Jewish Holidays
by Michael Strassfeld

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