Chag HaBanot 8028 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 11788

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 11788 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 8025 30 Kislev 11785
Chag HaBanot 8025 1 Tevet 11786
Chag HaBanot 8027 30 Kislev 11787
Chag HaBanot 8028 30 Kislev 11788
Chag HaBanot 8029 1 Tevet 11789
Chag HaBanot 8030 30 Kislev 11790
Chag HaBanot 8031 30 Kislev 11791
Chag HaBanot 8032 30 Kislev 11792

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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