Chag HaBanot 3909 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 7669

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 7669 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 3906 30 Kislev 7666
Chag HaBanot 3906 30 Kislev 7667
Chag HaBanot 3907 30 Kislev 7668
Chag HaBanot 3909 30 Kislev 7669
Chag HaBanot 3909 30 Kislev 7670
Chag HaBanot 3910 1 Tevet 7671
Chag HaBanot 3912 30 Kislev 7672
Chag HaBanot 3912 30 Kislev 7673
Chag HaBanot 3913 1 Tevet 7674

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
by Michael Strassfeld

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