Chag HaBanot 7367 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 11127

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 11127 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 7364 30 Kislev 11124
Chag HaBanot 7365 30 Kislev 11125
Chag HaBanot 7366 30 Kislev 11126
Chag HaBanot 7367 1 Tevet 11127
Chag HaBanot 7368 30 Kislev 11128
Chag HaBanot 7368 30 Kislev 11129
Chag HaBanot 7370 30 Kislev 11130
Chag HaBanot 7371 30 Kislev 11131
Chag HaBanot 7371 1 Tevet 11132

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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