Chag HaBanot 3755 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 7516

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 7516 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 3751 30 Kislev 7512
Chag HaBanot 3752 1 Tevet 7513
Chag HaBanot 3754 30 Kislev 7514
Chag HaBanot 3754 30 Kislev 7515
Chag HaBanot 3755 30 Kislev 7516
Chag HaBanot 3757 1 Tevet 7517
Chag HaBanot 3757 30 Kislev 7518
Chag HaBanot 3758 30 Kislev 7519

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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