Chag HaBanot 7762 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 11522

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 11522 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 7759 1 Tevet 11519
Chag HaBanot 7759 30 Kislev 11520
Chag HaBanot 7761 30 Kislev 11521
Chag HaBanot 7762 1 Tevet 11522
Chag HaBanot 7763 30 Kislev 11523
Chag HaBanot 7764 30 Kislev 11524
Chag HaBanot 7765 30 Kislev 11525
Chag HaBanot 7766 30 Kislev 11526

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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