Chag HaBanot 2709 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 6469

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 6469 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 2706 1 Tevet 6467
Chag HaBanot 2707 30 Kislev 6468
Chag HaBanot 2709 30 Kislev 6469
Chag HaBanot 2709 30 Kislev 6470
Chag HaBanot 2710 1 Tevet 6471
Chag HaBanot 2711 30 Kislev 6472
Chag HaBanot 2712 30 Kislev 6473
Chag HaBanot 2713 1 Tevet 6474

References

The Jewish Holidays: A Guide & Commentary (paid link)
Rabbi Michael Strassfeld
“Girls Day (Judaism)” in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia
Wikimedia Foundation Inc.
Books (paid links)
The Jewish Holidays: A Guide & Commentary

The Jewish Holidays
by Michael Strassfeld

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