Chag HaBanot 4631 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 8391

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 8391 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 4628 30 Kislev 8388
Chag HaBanot 4628 30 Kislev 8389
Chag HaBanot 4629 30 Kislev 8390
Chag HaBanot 4631 30 Kislev 8391
Chag HaBanot 4631 1 Tevet 8392
Chag HaBanot 4632 30 Kislev 8393
Chag HaBanot 4634 30 Kislev 8394
Chag HaBanot 4634 30 Kislev 8395
Chag HaBanot 4635 1 Tevet 8396

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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