Chag HaBanot 4935 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 8695

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 8695 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 4932 30 Kislev 8692
Chag HaBanot 4933 1 Tevet 8693
Chag HaBanot 4933 30 Kislev 8694
Chag HaBanot 4935 30 Kislev 8695
Chag HaBanot 4935 30 Kislev 8696
Chag HaBanot 4936 1 Tevet 8697
Chag HaBanot 4938 30 Kislev 8698
Chag HaBanot 4938 30 Kislev 8699
Chag HaBanot 4939 30 Kislev 8700

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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