Chag HaBanot 5000 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 8760

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 8760 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 4998 30 Kislev 8758
Chag HaBanot 4998 1 Tevet 8759
Chag HaBanot 5000 30 Kislev 8760
Chag HaBanot 5000 30 Kislev 8761
Chag HaBanot 5001 30 Kislev 8762
Chag HaBanot 5003 30 Kislev 8763
Chag HaBanot 5003 1 Tevet 8764
Chag HaBanot 5004 30 Kislev 8765

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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