Chag HaBanot 5695 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 9455

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 9455 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 5692 30 Kislev 9452
Chag HaBanot 5693 30 Kislev 9453
Chag HaBanot 5693 1 Tevet 9454
Chag HaBanot 5695 30 Kislev 9455
Chag HaBanot 5696 30 Kislev 9456
Chag HaBanot 5696 30 Kislev 9457
Chag HaBanot 5698 1 Tevet 9458
Chag HaBanot 5698 30 Kislev 9459
Chag HaBanot 5699 30 Kislev 9460

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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