Chag HaBanot 6390 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 10150

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 10150 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 6387 30 Kislev 10147
Chag HaBanot 6388 1 Tevet 10148
Chag HaBanot 6388 30 Kislev 10149
Chag HaBanot 6390 30 Kislev 10150
Chag HaBanot 6391 30 Kislev 10151
Chag HaBanot 6391 1 Tevet 10152
Chag HaBanot 6393 30 Kislev 10153
Chag HaBanot 6393 30 Kislev 10154

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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