Chag HaBanot 3891 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 7652

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 7652 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 3888 30 Kislev 7649
Chag HaBanot 3890 30 Kislev 7650
Chag HaBanot 3890 1 Tevet 7651
Chag HaBanot 3891 30 Kislev 7652
Chag HaBanot 3893 30 Kislev 7653
Chag HaBanot 3893 30 Kislev 7654
Chag HaBanot 3894 1 Tevet 7655
Chag HaBanot 3895 30 Kislev 7656

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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