Chag HaBanot 5264 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 9024

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 9024 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 5261 30 Kislev 9021
Chag HaBanot 5261 1 Tevet 9022
Chag HaBanot 5262 30 Kislev 9023
Chag HaBanot 5264 30 Kislev 9024
Chag HaBanot 5264 30 Kislev 9025
Chag HaBanot 5266 1 Tevet 9026
Chag HaBanot 5266 30 Kislev 9027
Chag HaBanot 5267 30 Kislev 9028

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
by Michael Strassfeld

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