Chag HaBanot 2938 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 6699

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 6699 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 2935 30 Kislev 6696
Chag HaBanot 2937 30 Kislev 6697
Chag HaBanot 2937 1 Tevet 6698
Chag HaBanot 2938 30 Kislev 6699
Chag HaBanot 2940 30 Kislev 6700
Chag HaBanot 2940 30 Kislev 6701
Chag HaBanot 2941 1 Tevet 6702
Chag HaBanot 2942 30 Kislev 6703

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: A Guide & Commentary

The Jewish Holidays
by Michael Strassfeld

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