Chag HaBanot 4306 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 8067

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 8067 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 4303 30 Kislev 8063
Chag HaBanot 4303 30 Kislev 8064
Chag HaBanot 4305 30 Kislev 8065
Chag HaBanot 4305 30 Kislev 8066
Chag HaBanot 4306 1 Tevet 8067
Chag HaBanot 4308 30 Kislev 8068
Chag HaBanot 4308 30 Kislev 8069
Chag HaBanot 4309 1 Tevet 8070

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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