Chag HaBanot 3901 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 7661

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 7661 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 3898 1 Tevet 7658
Chag HaBanot 3898 30 Kislev 7659
Chag HaBanot 3899 30 Kislev 7660
Chag HaBanot 3901 30 Kislev 7661
Chag HaBanot 3901 1 Tevet 7662
Chag HaBanot 3902 30 Kislev 7663
Chag HaBanot 3904 30 Kislev 7664
Chag HaBanot 3904 1 Tevet 7665

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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