Chag HaBanot 3605 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 7365

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 7365 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 3602 30 Kislev 7362
Chag HaBanot 3602 30 Kislev 7363
Chag HaBanot 3603 1 Tevet 7364
Chag HaBanot 3605 30 Kislev 7365
Chag HaBanot 3605 30 Kislev 7366
Chag HaBanot 3606 30 Kislev 7367
Chag HaBanot 3608 1 Tevet 7368
Chag HaBanot 3608 30 Kislev 7369
Chag HaBanot 3609 30 Kislev 7370

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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