Chag HaBanot 4206 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 7967

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 7967 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 4203 1 Tevet 7964
Chag HaBanot 4205 30 Kislev 7965
Chag HaBanot 4205 30 Kislev 7966
Chag HaBanot 4206 30 Kislev 7967
Chag HaBanot 4208 30 Kislev 7968
Chag HaBanot 4208 1 Tevet 7969
Chag HaBanot 4210 30 Kislev 7970
Chag HaBanot 4210 30 Kislev 7971

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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