Chag HaBanot 3712 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 7473

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 7473 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 3709 1 Tevet 7470
Chag HaBanot 3711 30 Kislev 7471
Chag HaBanot 3711 30 Kislev 7472
Chag HaBanot 3712 30 Kislev 7473
Chag HaBanot 3713 30 Kislev 7474
Chag HaBanot 3714 1 Tevet 7475
Chag HaBanot 3716 30 Kislev 7476
Chag HaBanot 3716 30 Kislev 7477

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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