Chag HaBanot 5630 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 9390

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 9390 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 5627 1 Tevet 9387
Chag HaBanot 5628 30 Kislev 9388
Chag HaBanot 5628 30 Kislev 9389
Chag HaBanot 5630 30 Kislev 9390
Chag HaBanot 5630 1 Tevet 9391
Chag HaBanot 5631 30 Kislev 9392
Chag HaBanot 5633 30 Kislev 9393
Chag HaBanot 5633 1 Tevet 9394

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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