Chag HaBanot 5388 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 9148

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 9148 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 5386 30 Kislev 9146
Chag HaBanot 5386 1 Tevet 9147
Chag HaBanot 5388 30 Kislev 9148
Chag HaBanot 5389 30 Kislev 9149
Chag HaBanot 5389 30 Kislev 9150
Chag HaBanot 5391 30 Kislev 9151
Chag HaBanot 5392 30 Kislev 9152
Chag HaBanot 5392 1 Tevet 9153

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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