Chag HaBanot 4754 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 8515

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 8515 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 4751 30 Kislev 8511
Chag HaBanot 4751 1 Tevet 8512
Chag HaBanot 4753 30 Kislev 8513
Chag HaBanot 4753 30 Kislev 8514
Chag HaBanot 4754 30 Kislev 8515
Chag HaBanot 4756 30 Kislev 8516
Chag HaBanot 4756 1 Tevet 8517
Chag HaBanot 4757 30 Kislev 8518

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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