Chag HaBanot 5617 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 9377

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 9377 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 5614 30 Kislev 9374
Chag HaBanot 5614 1 Tevet 9375
Chag HaBanot 5616 30 Kislev 9376
Chag HaBanot 5617 30 Kislev 9377
Chag HaBanot 5617 1 Tevet 9378
Chag HaBanot 5619 30 Kislev 9379
Chag HaBanot 5620 30 Kislev 9380
Chag HaBanot 5620 30 Kislev 9381

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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