Chag HaBanot 2772 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 6533

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 6533 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 2768 1 Tevet 6529
Chag HaBanot 2769 30 Kislev 6530
Chag HaBanot 2770 30 Kislev 6531
Chag HaBanot 2771 30 Kislev 6532
Chag HaBanot 2772 30 Kislev 6533
Chag HaBanot 2773 1 Tevet 6534
Chag HaBanot 2774 30 Kislev 6535
Chag HaBanot 2775 30 Kislev 6536

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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