Chag HaBanot 7564 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 11324

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 11324 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 7561 30 Kislev 11321
Chag HaBanot 7561 30 Kislev 11322
Chag HaBanot 7563 1 Tevet 11323
Chag HaBanot 7564 30 Kislev 11324
Chag HaBanot 7565 30 Kislev 11325
Chag HaBanot 7566 30 Kislev 11326
Chag HaBanot 7567 1 Tevet 11327
Chag HaBanot 7568 30 Kislev 11328

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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