Chag HaBanot 7706 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 11466

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 11466 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 7704 1 Tevet 11464
Chag HaBanot 7705 30 Kislev 11465
Chag HaBanot 7706 30 Kislev 11466
Chag HaBanot 7707 30 Kislev 11467
Chag HaBanot 7708 1 Tevet 11468
Chag HaBanot 7709 30 Kislev 11469
Chag HaBanot 7710 30 Kislev 11470

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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