Chag HaBanot 5196 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 8956

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 8956 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 5193 30 Kislev 8953
Chag HaBanot 5193 30 Kislev 8954
Chag HaBanot 5194 1 Tevet 8955
Chag HaBanot 5196 30 Kislev 8956
Chag HaBanot 5196 30 Kislev 8957
Chag HaBanot 5198 30 Kislev 8958
Chag HaBanot 5199 30 Kislev 8959
Chag HaBanot 5199 1 Tevet 8960

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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