Chag HaBanot 7928 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 11688

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 11688 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 7925 30 Kislev 11685
Chag HaBanot 7926 30 Kislev 11686
Chag HaBanot 7927 30 Kislev 11687
Chag HaBanot 7928 1 Tevet 11688
Chag HaBanot 7929 30 Kislev 11689
Chag HaBanot 7930 30 Kislev 11690
Chag HaBanot 7930 1 Tevet 11691
Chag HaBanot 7932 30 Kislev 11692

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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