Chag HaBanot 5483 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 9243

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 9243 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 5481 30 Kislev 9241
Chag HaBanot 5481 1 Tevet 9242
Chag HaBanot 5483 30 Kislev 9243
Chag HaBanot 5484 30 Kislev 9244
Chag HaBanot 5484 1 Tevet 9245
Chag HaBanot 5486 30 Kislev 9246
Chag HaBanot 5486 30 Kislev 9247
Chag HaBanot 5487 30 Kislev 9248

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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