Chag HaBanot 4825 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 8586

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 8586 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 4822 1 Tevet 8583
Chag HaBanot 4824 30 Kislev 8584
Chag HaBanot 4824 30 Kislev 8585
Chag HaBanot 4825 30 Kislev 8586
Chag HaBanot 4827 30 Kislev 8587
Chag HaBanot 4827 1 Tevet 8588
Chag HaBanot 4829 30 Kislev 8589
Chag HaBanot 4829 30 Kislev 8590

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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