Chag HaBanot 5180 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 8940

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 8940 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 5177 30 Kislev 8937
Chag HaBanot 5177 30 Kislev 8938
Chag HaBanot 5179 30 Kislev 8939
Chag HaBanot 5180 1 Tevet 8940
Chag HaBanot 5180 30 Kislev 8941
Chag HaBanot 5182 30 Kislev 8942
Chag HaBanot 5182 30 Kislev 8943
Chag HaBanot 5183 1 Tevet 8944

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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