Chag HaBanot 5090 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 8850

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 8850 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 5087 30 Kislev 8847
Chag HaBanot 5087 30 Kislev 8848
Chag HaBanot 5088 1 Tevet 8849
Chag HaBanot 5090 30 Kislev 8850
Chag HaBanot 5090 30 Kislev 8851
Chag HaBanot 5091 30 Kislev 8852
Chag HaBanot 5093 1 Tevet 8853
Chag HaBanot 5093 30 Kislev 8854

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
by Michael Strassfeld

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