Chag HaBanot 5687 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 9447

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 9447 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 5684 30 Kislev 9444
Chag HaBanot 5685 1 Tevet 9445
Chag HaBanot 5685 30 Kislev 9446
Chag HaBanot 5687 30 Kislev 9447
Chag HaBanot 5687 30 Kislev 9448
Chag HaBanot 5688 1 Tevet 9449
Chag HaBanot 5690 30 Kislev 9450
Chag HaBanot 5690 30 Kislev 9451

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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