Chag HaBanot 4249 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 8010

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 8010 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 4246 30 Kislev 8006
Chag HaBanot 4246 1 Tevet 8007
Chag HaBanot 4248 30 Kislev 8008
Chag HaBanot 4248 30 Kislev 8009
Chag HaBanot 4249 1 Tevet 8010
Chag HaBanot 4251 30 Kislev 8011
Chag HaBanot 4251 30 Kislev 8012
Chag HaBanot 4252 30 Kislev 8013

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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