Chag HaBanot 5027 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 8787

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 8787 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 5025 30 Kislev 8785
Chag HaBanot 5025 1 Tevet 8786
Chag HaBanot 5027 30 Kislev 8787
Chag HaBanot 5028 30 Kislev 8788
Chag HaBanot 5028 30 Kislev 8789
Chag HaBanot 5030 30 Kislev 8790
Chag HaBanot 5030 1 Tevet 8791
Chag HaBanot 5031 30 Kislev 8792

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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