Chag HaBanot 7907 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 11667

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 11667 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 7905 30 Kislev 11665
Chag HaBanot 7906 30 Kislev 11666
Chag HaBanot 7907 30 Kislev 11667
Chag HaBanot 7908 1 Tevet 11668
Chag HaBanot 7909 30 Kislev 11669
Chag HaBanot 7910 30 Kislev 11670
Chag HaBanot 7911 30 Kislev 11671

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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