Chag HaBanot 7859 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 11619

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 11619 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 7856 30 Kislev 11616
Chag HaBanot 7857 1 Tevet 11617
Chag HaBanot 7858 30 Kislev 11618
Chag HaBanot 7859 30 Kislev 11619
Chag HaBanot 7860 1 Tevet 11620
Chag HaBanot 7861 30 Kislev 11621
Chag HaBanot 7862 30 Kislev 11622
Chag HaBanot 7862 30 Kislev 11623

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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