Chag HaBanot 4897 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 8657

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 8657 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 4894 30 Kislev 8654
Chag HaBanot 4894 30 Kislev 8655
Chag HaBanot 4895 30 Kislev 8656
Chag HaBanot 4897 30 Kislev 8657
Chag HaBanot 4897 30 Kislev 8658
Chag HaBanot 4898 1 Tevet 8659
Chag HaBanot 4900 30 Kislev 8660
Chag HaBanot 4900 30 Kislev 8661
Chag HaBanot 4901 1 Tevet 8662

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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