Chag HaBanot 3597 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 7357

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 7357 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 3594 30 Kislev 7354
Chag HaBanot 3594 30 Kislev 7355
Chag HaBanot 3595 1 Tevet 7356
Chag HaBanot 3597 30 Kislev 7357
Chag HaBanot 3597 30 Kislev 7358
Chag HaBanot 3598 30 Kislev 7359
Chag HaBanot 3599 1 Tevet 7360
Chag HaBanot 3600 30 Kislev 7361

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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