Chag HaBanot 3532 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 7292

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 7292 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 3529 30 Kislev 7289
Chag HaBanot 3529 1 Tevet 7290
Chag HaBanot 3530 30 Kislev 7291
Chag HaBanot 3532 30 Kislev 7292
Chag HaBanot 3532 30 Kislev 7293
Chag HaBanot 3533 1 Tevet 7294
Chag HaBanot 3534 30 Kislev 7295
Chag HaBanot 3535 30 Kislev 7296

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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