Chag HaBanot 8590 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 12350

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 12350 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 8587 1 Tevet 12347
Chag HaBanot 8587 30 Kislev 12348
Chag HaBanot 8589 30 Kislev 12349
Chag HaBanot 8590 1 Tevet 12350
Chag HaBanot 8591 30 Kislev 12351
Chag HaBanot 8592 30 Kislev 12352
Chag HaBanot 8593 30 Kislev 12353
Chag HaBanot 8594 1 Tevet 12354

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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