Chag HaBanot 5666 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 9426

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 9426 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 5663 30 Kislev 9423
Chag HaBanot 5663 30 Kislev 9424
Chag HaBanot 5665 30 Kislev 9425
Chag HaBanot 5666 30 Kislev 9426
Chag HaBanot 5666 1 Tevet 9427
Chag HaBanot 5668 30 Kislev 9428
Chag HaBanot 5668 30 Kislev 9429
Chag HaBanot 5669 1 Tevet 9430

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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