Chag HaBanot 7454 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 11214

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 11214 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 7451 30 Kislev 11211
Chag HaBanot 7452 30 Kislev 11212
Chag HaBanot 7452 1 Tevet 11213
Chag HaBanot 7454 30 Kislev 11214
Chag HaBanot 7455 30 Kislev 11215
Chag HaBanot 7455 30 Kislev 11216
Chag HaBanot 7457 1 Tevet 11217
Chag HaBanot 7458 30 Kislev 11218

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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