Chag HaBanot 5585 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 9346

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 9346 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 5582 30 Kislev 9342
Chag HaBanot 5582 1 Tevet 9343
Chag HaBanot 5584 30 Kislev 9344
Chag HaBanot 5584 30 Kislev 9345
Chag HaBanot 5585 30 Kislev 9346
Chag HaBanot 5587 1 Tevet 9347
Chag HaBanot 5587 30 Kislev 9348
Chag HaBanot 5589 30 Kislev 9349

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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