Chag HaBanot 4559 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 8320

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 8320 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 4556 1 Tevet 8317
Chag HaBanot 4558 30 Kislev 8318
Chag HaBanot 4558 30 Kislev 8319
Chag HaBanot 4559 30 Kislev 8320
Chag HaBanot 4561 1 Tevet 8321
Chag HaBanot 4561 30 Kislev 8322
Chag HaBanot 4563 30 Kislev 8323
Chag HaBanot 4563 30 Kislev 8324

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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