Chag HaBanot 4764 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 8524

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 8524 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 4761 30 Kislev 8521
Chag HaBanot 4761 30 Kislev 8522
Chag HaBanot 4762 30 Kislev 8523
Chag HaBanot 4764 1 Tevet 8524
Chag HaBanot 4764 30 Kislev 8525
Chag HaBanot 4765 30 Kislev 8526
Chag HaBanot 4767 30 Kislev 8527
Chag HaBanot 4767 1 Tevet 8528
Chag HaBanot 4768 30 Kislev 8529

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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