Chag HaBanot 8131 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 11891

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 11891 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 8128 1 Tevet 11888
Chag HaBanot 8128 30 Kislev 11889
Chag HaBanot 8130 30 Kislev 11890
Chag HaBanot 8131 30 Kislev 11891
Chag HaBanot 8131 1 Tevet 11892
Chag HaBanot 8133 30 Kislev 11893
Chag HaBanot 8134 30 Kislev 11894
Chag HaBanot 8135 1 Tevet 11895

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: A Guide & Commentary

The Jewish Holidays
by Michael Strassfeld

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