Chag HaBanot 6418 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 10178

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 10178 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 6415 1 Tevet 10175
Chag HaBanot 6415 30 Kislev 10176
Chag HaBanot 6417 30 Kislev 10177
Chag HaBanot 6418 30 Kislev 10178
Chag HaBanot 6418 1 Tevet 10179
Chag HaBanot 6420 30 Kislev 10180
Chag HaBanot 6421 30 Kislev 10181
Chag HaBanot 6421 1 Tevet 10182

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: A Guide & Commentary

The Jewish Holidays
by Michael Strassfeld

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