Chag HaBanot 7591 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 11351

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 11351 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 7588 30 Kislev 11348
Chag HaBanot 7588 30 Kislev 11349
Chag HaBanot 7590 1 Tevet 11350
Chag HaBanot 7591 30 Kislev 11351
Chag HaBanot 7592 30 Kislev 11352
Chag HaBanot 7593 30 Kislev 11353
Chag HaBanot 7594 1 Tevet 11354
Chag HaBanot 7595 30 Kislev 11355

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: A Guide & Commentary

The Jewish Holidays
by Michael Strassfeld

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