Chag HaBanot 3256 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 7017

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 7017 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 3253 30 Kislev 7014
Chag HaBanot 3254 1 Tevet 7015
Chag HaBanot 3255 30 Kislev 7016
Chag HaBanot 3256 30 Kislev 7017
Chag HaBanot 3257 30 Kislev 7018
Chag HaBanot 3258 1 Tevet 7019
Chag HaBanot 3260 30 Kislev 7020
Chag HaBanot 3260 30 Kislev 7021

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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