Chag HaBanot 5525 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 9285

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 9285 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 5522 30 Kislev 9282
Chag HaBanot 5522 30 Kislev 9283
Chag HaBanot 5524 30 Kislev 9284
Chag HaBanot 5525 1 Tevet 9285
Chag HaBanot 5525 30 Kislev 9286
Chag HaBanot 5527 30 Kislev 9287
Chag HaBanot 5527 30 Kislev 9288
Chag HaBanot 5528 1 Tevet 9289

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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