Chag HaBanot 3014 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 6775

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 6775 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 3011 1 Tevet 6772
Chag HaBanot 3013 30 Kislev 6773
Chag HaBanot 3013 30 Kislev 6774
Chag HaBanot 3014 30 Kislev 6775
Chag HaBanot 3016 1 Tevet 6776
Chag HaBanot 3016 30 Kislev 6777
Chag HaBanot 3017 30 Kislev 6778
Chag HaBanot 3018 30 Kislev 6779

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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