Chag HaBanot 5541 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 9301

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 9301 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 5538 30 Kislev 9298
Chag HaBanot 5538 30 Kislev 9299
Chag HaBanot 5540 1 Tevet 9300
Chag HaBanot 5541 30 Kislev 9301
Chag HaBanot 5541 30 Kislev 9302
Chag HaBanot 5543 30 Kislev 9303
Chag HaBanot 5544 30 Kislev 9304
Chag HaBanot 5544 1 Tevet 9305

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: A Guide & Commentary

The Jewish Holidays
by Michael Strassfeld

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