Chag HaBanot 5532 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 9292

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 9292 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 5530 30 Kislev 9290
Chag HaBanot 5530 30 Kislev 9291
Chag HaBanot 5532 30 Kislev 9292
Chag HaBanot 5533 1 Tevet 9293
Chag HaBanot 5533 30 Kislev 9294
Chag HaBanot 5535 30 Kislev 9295
Chag HaBanot 5536 30 Kislev 9296
Chag HaBanot 5536 1 Tevet 9297

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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