Chag HaBanot 8057 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 11817

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 11817 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 8054 30 Kislev 11814
Chag HaBanot 8055 30 Kislev 11815
Chag HaBanot 8055 30 Kislev 11816
Chag HaBanot 8057 1 Tevet 11817
Chag HaBanot 8058 30 Kislev 11818
Chag HaBanot 8059 30 Kislev 11819
Chag HaBanot 8060 30 Kislev 11820
Chag HaBanot 8061 1 Tevet 11821

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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