Chag HaBanot 3850 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 7611

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 7611 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 3846 1 Tevet 7607
Chag HaBanot 3847 30 Kislev 7608
Chag HaBanot 3849 30 Kislev 7609
Chag HaBanot 3849 30 Kislev 7610
Chag HaBanot 3850 1 Tevet 7611
Chag HaBanot 3852 30 Kislev 7612
Chag HaBanot 3852 30 Kislev 7613
Chag HaBanot 3853 30 Kislev 7614

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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