Chag HaBanot 5555 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 9316

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 9316 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 5552 30 Kislev 9312
Chag HaBanot 5552 1 Tevet 9313
Chag HaBanot 5554 30 Kislev 9314
Chag HaBanot 5554 30 Kislev 9315
Chag HaBanot 5555 1 Tevet 9316
Chag HaBanot 5557 30 Kislev 9317
Chag HaBanot 5557 30 Kislev 9318
Chag HaBanot 5559 30 Kislev 9319

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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