Chag HaBanot 4919 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 8679

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 8679 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 4916 30 Kislev 8676
Chag HaBanot 4916 1 Tevet 8677
Chag HaBanot 4917 30 Kislev 8678
Chag HaBanot 4919 30 Kislev 8679
Chag HaBanot 4919 30 Kislev 8680
Chag HaBanot 4920 1 Tevet 8681
Chag HaBanot 4922 30 Kislev 8682
Chag HaBanot 4922 30 Kislev 8683

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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