Chag HaBanot 4677 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 8437

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 8437 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 4675 30 Kislev 8435
Chag HaBanot 4675 30 Kislev 8436
Chag HaBanot 4677 30 Kislev 8437
Chag HaBanot 4677 30 Kislev 8438
Chag HaBanot 4678 1 Tevet 8439
Chag HaBanot 4680 30 Kislev 8440
Chag HaBanot 4680 30 Kislev 8441
Chag HaBanot 4681 1 Tevet 8442

References

The Jewish Holidays: A Guide & Commentary (paid link)
Rabbi Michael Strassfeld
“Girls Day (Judaism)” in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia
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Books (paid links)

The Jewish Holidays
by Michael Strassfeld

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