Chag HaBanot 5677 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 9437

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 9437 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 5674 1 Tevet 9434
Chag HaBanot 5674 30 Kislev 9435
Chag HaBanot 5676 30 Kislev 9436
Chag HaBanot 5677 30 Kislev 9437
Chag HaBanot 5677 1 Tevet 9438
Chag HaBanot 5679 30 Kislev 9439
Chag HaBanot 5679 30 Kislev 9440
Chag HaBanot 5680 1 Tevet 9441

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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