Chag HaBanot 3818 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 7579

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 7579 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 3815 1 Tevet 7576
Chag HaBanot 3817 30 Kislev 7577
Chag HaBanot 3817 30 Kislev 7578
Chag HaBanot 3818 30 Kislev 7579
Chag HaBanot 3819 1 Tevet 7580
Chag HaBanot 3820 30 Kislev 7581
Chag HaBanot 3822 30 Kislev 7582
Chag HaBanot 3822 30 Kislev 7583

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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