Chag HaBanot 5736 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 9496

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 9496 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 5733 30 Kislev 9493
Chag HaBanot 5734 30 Kislev 9494
Chag HaBanot 5734 30 Kislev 9495
Chag HaBanot 5736 30 Kislev 9496
Chag HaBanot 5736 30 Kislev 9497
Chag HaBanot 5737 1 Tevet 9498
Chag HaBanot 5739 30 Kislev 9499
Chag HaBanot 5739 1 Tevet 9500

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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