Chag HaBanot 7618 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 11378

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 11378 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 7615 30 Kislev 11375
Chag HaBanot 7615 30 Kislev 11376
Chag HaBanot 7617 30 Kislev 11377
Chag HaBanot 7618 30 Kislev 11378
Chag HaBanot 7618 1 Tevet 11379
Chag HaBanot 7620 30 Kislev 11380
Chag HaBanot 7621 1 Tevet 11381
Chag HaBanot 7622 30 Kislev 11382

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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