Chag HaBanot 3157 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 6917

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 6917 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 3154 30 Kislev 6915
Chag HaBanot 3155 30 Kislev 6916
Chag HaBanot 3157 1 Tevet 6917
Chag HaBanot 3157 30 Kislev 6918
Chag HaBanot 3158 30 Kislev 6919
Chag HaBanot 3160 30 Kislev 6920
Chag HaBanot 3160 1 Tevet 6921
Chag HaBanot 3161 30 Kislev 6922

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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