Chag HaBanot 3516 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 7277

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 7277 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 3513 30 Kislev 7273
Chag HaBanot 3513 30 Kislev 7274
Chag HaBanot 3514 1 Tevet 7275
Chag HaBanot 3515 30 Kislev 7276
Chag HaBanot 3516 1 Tevet 7277
Chag HaBanot 3518 30 Kislev 7278
Chag HaBanot 3518 30 Kislev 7279
Chag HaBanot 3519 30 Kislev 7280

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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