Chag HaBanot 5342 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 9102

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 9102 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 5340 1 Tevet 9100
Chag HaBanot 5340 30 Kislev 9101
Chag HaBanot 5342 30 Kislev 9102
Chag HaBanot 5343 30 Kislev 9103
Chag HaBanot 5343 1 Tevet 9104
Chag HaBanot 5345 30 Kislev 9105
Chag HaBanot 5345 30 Kislev 9106
Chag HaBanot 5346 30 Kislev 9107

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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