Chag HaBanot 5465 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 9225

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 9225 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 5462 1 Tevet 9222
Chag HaBanot 5462 30 Kislev 9223
Chag HaBanot 5464 30 Kislev 9224
Chag HaBanot 5465 30 Kislev 9225
Chag HaBanot 5465 1 Tevet 9226
Chag HaBanot 5467 30 Kislev 9227
Chag HaBanot 5468 30 Kislev 9228
Chag HaBanot 5468 30 Kislev 9229

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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