Chag HaBanot 5315 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 9075

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 9075 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 5312 30 Kislev 9072
Chag HaBanot 5313 1 Tevet 9073
Chag HaBanot 5313 30 Kislev 9074
Chag HaBanot 5315 30 Kislev 9075
Chag HaBanot 5316 30 Kislev 9076
Chag HaBanot 5316 1 Tevet 9077
Chag HaBanot 5318 30 Kislev 9078
Chag HaBanot 5318 30 Kislev 9079
Chag HaBanot 5319 30 Kislev 9080

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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