Chag HaBanot 3760 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 7520

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 7520 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 3757 1 Tevet 7517
Chag HaBanot 3757 30 Kislev 7518
Chag HaBanot 3758 30 Kislev 7519
Chag HaBanot 3760 30 Kislev 7520
Chag HaBanot 3760 30 Kislev 7521
Chag HaBanot 3761 1 Tevet 7522
Chag HaBanot 3762 30 Kislev 7523
Chag HaBanot 3763 1 Tevet 7524

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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