Chag HaBanot 3627 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 7387

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 7387 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 3624 1 Tevet 7384
Chag HaBanot 3624 30 Kislev 7385
Chag HaBanot 3625 30 Kislev 7386
Chag HaBanot 3627 30 Kislev 7387
Chag HaBanot 3627 1 Tevet 7388
Chag HaBanot 3628 30 Kislev 7389
Chag HaBanot 3629 30 Kislev 7390
Chag HaBanot 3630 1 Tevet 7391

References

The Jewish Holidays: A Guide & Commentary (paid link)
Rabbi Michael Strassfeld
“Girls Day (Judaism)” in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia
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Books (paid links)

The Jewish Holidays
by Michael Strassfeld

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