Chag HaBanot 7631 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 11391

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 11391 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 7628 30 Kislev 11388
Chag HaBanot 7629 30 Kislev 11389
Chag HaBanot 7630 1 Tevet 11390
Chag HaBanot 7631 30 Kislev 11391
Chag HaBanot 7632 30 Kislev 11392
Chag HaBanot 7633 30 Kislev 11393
Chag HaBanot 7634 1 Tevet 11394
Chag HaBanot 7634 30 Kislev 11395

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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