Chag HaBanot 5196 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 8956

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 8956 begins at sundown on Friday, 5 January 5196 and ends at nightfall on Saturday, 6 January 5196.

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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References

The Jewish Holidays: A Guide & Commentary (paid link)

Rabbi Michael Strassfeld

“Girls Day (Judaism)” in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia

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