Chag HaBanot 5912 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 9672

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 9672 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 5910 30 Kislev 9670
Chag HaBanot 5910 30 Kislev 9671
Chag HaBanot 5912 30 Kislev 9672
Chag HaBanot 5913 30 Kislev 9673
Chag HaBanot 5913 1 Tevet 9674
Chag HaBanot 5915 30 Kislev 9675
Chag HaBanot 5916 30 Kislev 9676
Chag HaBanot 5916 1 Tevet 9677

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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