Chag HaBanot 3028 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 6789

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 6789 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 3025 30 Kislev 6786
Chag HaBanot 3026 30 Kislev 6787
Chag HaBanot 3027 30 Kislev 6788
Chag HaBanot 3028 1 Tevet 6789
Chag HaBanot 3029 30 Kislev 6790
Chag HaBanot 3030 30 Kislev 6791
Chag HaBanot 3032 1 Tevet 6792
Chag HaBanot 3032 30 Kislev 6793

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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