Chag HaBanot 5744 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 9504

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 9504 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 5741 30 Kislev 9501
Chag HaBanot 5742 30 Kislev 9502
Chag HaBanot 5742 30 Kislev 9503
Chag HaBanot 5744 30 Kislev 9504
Chag HaBanot 5744 1 Tevet 9505
Chag HaBanot 5745 30 Kislev 9506
Chag HaBanot 5747 30 Kislev 9507
Chag HaBanot 5747 1 Tevet 9508

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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