Chag HaBanot 5606 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 9366

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 9366 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 5603 1 Tevet 9363
Chag HaBanot 5603 30 Kislev 9364
Chag HaBanot 5604 30 Kislev 9365
Chag HaBanot 5606 30 Kislev 9366
Chag HaBanot 5606 1 Tevet 9367
Chag HaBanot 5608 30 Kislev 9368
Chag HaBanot 5609 30 Kislev 9369
Chag HaBanot 5609 30 Kislev 9370

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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