Chag HaBanot 3792 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 7552

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 7552 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 3789 30 Kislev 7550
Chag HaBanot 3790 30 Kislev 7551
Chag HaBanot 3792 30 Kislev 7552
Chag HaBanot 3792 1 Tevet 7553
Chag HaBanot 3793 30 Kislev 7554
Chag HaBanot 3795 30 Kislev 7555
Chag HaBanot 3795 30 Kislev 7556
Chag HaBanot 3796 1 Tevet 7557

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: A Guide & Commentary

The Jewish Holidays
by Michael Strassfeld

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