Chag HaBanot 6759 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 10519

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 10519 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 6756 30 Kislev 10516
Chag HaBanot 6757 30 Kislev 10517
Chag HaBanot 6757 30 Kislev 10518
Chag HaBanot 6759 30 Kislev 10519
Chag HaBanot 6760 1 Tevet 10520
Chag HaBanot 6760 30 Kislev 10521
Chag HaBanot 6762 30 Kislev 10522
Chag HaBanot 6763 30 Kislev 10523
Chag HaBanot 6763 1 Tevet 10524

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
by Michael Strassfeld

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