Chag HaBanot 5649 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 9409

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 9409 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 5646 30 Kislev 9406
Chag HaBanot 5647 1 Tevet 9407
Chag HaBanot 5647 30 Kislev 9408
Chag HaBanot 5649 30 Kislev 9409
Chag HaBanot 5649 30 Kislev 9410
Chag HaBanot 5650 1 Tevet 9411
Chag HaBanot 5652 30 Kislev 9412
Chag HaBanot 5652 30 Kislev 9413

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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