Chag HaBanot 3320 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 7080

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 7080 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 3317 30 Kislev 7077
Chag HaBanot 3317 30 Kislev 7078
Chag HaBanot 3318 1 Tevet 7079
Chag HaBanot 3320 30 Kislev 7080
Chag HaBanot 3320 30 Kislev 7081
Chag HaBanot 3321 1 Tevet 7082
Chag HaBanot 3322 30 Kislev 7083
Chag HaBanot 3323 30 Kislev 7084
Chag HaBanot 3324 30 Kislev 7085

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
by Michael Strassfeld

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