Chag HaBanot 5163 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 8923

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 8923 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 5160 1 Tevet 8920
Chag HaBanot 5161 30 Kislev 8921
Chag HaBanot 5161 30 Kislev 8922
Chag HaBanot 5163 30 Kislev 8923
Chag HaBanot 5163 1 Tevet 8924
Chag HaBanot 5164 30 Kislev 8925
Chag HaBanot 5166 30 Kislev 8926
Chag HaBanot 5166 30 Kislev 8927
Chag HaBanot 5167 1 Tevet 8928

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
by Michael Strassfeld

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