Chag HaBanot 5658 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 9418

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 9418 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 5655 30 Kislev 9415
Chag HaBanot 5655 30 Kislev 9416
Chag HaBanot 5657 30 Kislev 9417
Chag HaBanot 5658 1 Tevet 9418
Chag HaBanot 5658 30 Kislev 9419
Chag HaBanot 5660 30 Kislev 9420
Chag HaBanot 5660 30 Kislev 9421
Chag HaBanot 5661 1 Tevet 9422

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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