Chag HaBanot 4941 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 8701

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 8701 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 4938 30 Kislev 8698
Chag HaBanot 4938 30 Kislev 8699
Chag HaBanot 4939 30 Kislev 8700
Chag HaBanot 4941 1 Tevet 8701
Chag HaBanot 4941 30 Kislev 8702
Chag HaBanot 4943 30 Kislev 8703
Chag HaBanot 4944 30 Kislev 8704
Chag HaBanot 4944 1 Tevet 8705

References

The Jewish Holidays: A Guide & Commentary (paid link)
Rabbi Michael Strassfeld
“Girls Day (Judaism)” in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia
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Books (paid links)
The Jewish Holidays: A Guide & Commentary

The Jewish Holidays
by Michael Strassfeld

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