Chag HaBanot 4018 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 7779

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 7779 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 4015 30 Kislev 7775
Chag HaBanot 4015 1 Tevet 7776
Chag HaBanot 4016 30 Kislev 7777
Chag HaBanot 4017 30 Kislev 7778
Chag HaBanot 4018 30 Kislev 7779
Chag HaBanot 4020 1 Tevet 7780
Chag HaBanot 4020 30 Kislev 7781
Chag HaBanot 4021 30 Kislev 7782

References

The Jewish Holidays: A Guide & Commentary (paid link)
Rabbi Michael Strassfeld
“Girls Day (Judaism)” in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia
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Books (paid links)
The Jewish Holidays: A Guide & Commentary

The Jewish Holidays
by Michael Strassfeld

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