Chag HaBanot 7544 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 11304

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 11304 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 7541 30 Kislev 11301
Chag HaBanot 7542 30 Kislev 11302
Chag HaBanot 7542 1 Tevet 11303
Chag HaBanot 7544 30 Kislev 11304
Chag HaBanot 7545 30 Kislev 11305
Chag HaBanot 7546 30 Kislev 11306
Chag HaBanot 7547 30 Kislev 11307
Chag HaBanot 7548 1 Tevet 11308

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
by Michael Strassfeld

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