Chag HaBanot 4726 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 8486

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 8486 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 4723 30 Kislev 8483
Chag HaBanot 4724 30 Kislev 8484
Chag HaBanot 4724 1 Tevet 8485
Chag HaBanot 4726 30 Kislev 8486
Chag HaBanot 4726 30 Kislev 8487
Chag HaBanot 4727 30 Kislev 8488
Chag HaBanot 4729 30 Kislev 8489
Chag HaBanot 4729 1 Tevet 8490
Chag HaBanot 4730 30 Kislev 8491

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
by Michael Strassfeld

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