Chag HaBanot 3617 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 7378

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 7378 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 3614 30 Kislev 7375
Chag HaBanot 3616 30 Kislev 7376
Chag HaBanot 3616 1 Tevet 7377
Chag HaBanot 3617 30 Kislev 7378
Chag HaBanot 3618 30 Kislev 7379
Chag HaBanot 3619 1 Tevet 7380
Chag HaBanot 3621 30 Kislev 7381
Chag HaBanot 3621 30 Kislev 7382

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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