Chag HaBanot 4878 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 8638

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 8638 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 4875 30 Kislev 8635
Chag HaBanot 4876 30 Kislev 8636
Chag HaBanot 4876 30 Kislev 8637
Chag HaBanot 4878 30 Kislev 8638
Chag HaBanot 4878 1 Tevet 8639
Chag HaBanot 4879 30 Kislev 8640
Chag HaBanot 4881 30 Kislev 8641
Chag HaBanot 4881 30 Kislev 8642
Chag HaBanot 4882 1 Tevet 8643

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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