Chag HaBanot 3182 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 6943

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 6943 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 3178 30 Kislev 6939
Chag HaBanot 3179 30 Kislev 6940
Chag HaBanot 3180 1 Tevet 6941
Chag HaBanot 3181 30 Kislev 6942
Chag HaBanot 3182 30 Kislev 6943
Chag HaBanot 3184 30 Kislev 6944
Chag HaBanot 3184 1 Tevet 6945
Chag HaBanot 3185 30 Kislev 6946

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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