Chag HaBanot 5337 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 9097

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 9097 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 5334 30 Kislev 9094
Chag HaBanot 5334 30 Kislev 9095
Chag HaBanot 5335 1 Tevet 9096
Chag HaBanot 5337 30 Kislev 9097
Chag HaBanot 5337 30 Kislev 9098
Chag HaBanot 5338 30 Kislev 9099
Chag HaBanot 5340 1 Tevet 9100
Chag HaBanot 5340 30 Kislev 9101

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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