Chag HaBanot 4366 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 8127

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 8127 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 4363 30 Kislev 8124
Chag HaBanot 4365 1 Tevet 8125
Chag HaBanot 4365 30 Kislev 8126
Chag HaBanot 4366 30 Kislev 8127
Chag HaBanot 4368 30 Kislev 8128
Chag HaBanot 4368 1 Tevet 8129
Chag HaBanot 4369 30 Kislev 8130

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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