Chag HaBanot 8020 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 11780

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 11780 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 8017 30 Kislev 11777
Chag HaBanot 8017 1 Tevet 11778
Chag HaBanot 8019 30 Kislev 11779
Chag HaBanot 8020 30 Kislev 11780
Chag HaBanot 8021 30 Kislev 11781
Chag HaBanot 8022 1 Tevet 11782
Chag HaBanot 8023 30 Kislev 11783
Chag HaBanot 8024 30 Kislev 11784

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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